The Education of Phillips Brooks probes the formative years of one
of the best-known figures of Victorian America's "Gilded Age."
Rigorously researched, bringing as yet untapped archival material
into play, John F. Woolverton's book is an extremely readable and
fascinating look at a gifted, persuasive clergyman and public
figure. One of the most influential ministers of his time, Brooks
delivered the sermon over the body of Abraham Lincoln at
Independence Hall in Philadelphia and is known for penning the
lyrics to "O Little Town of Bethlehem." Although Brooks was not a
major theologian, he was nurtured in an atmosphere of serious
religious thought. In the crisis era of pre-Civil War America, he
sought a religious and cultural ideal in the perfect manhood of
Jesus Christ and consequently "won a name" for himself, as his
slightly envious cousin, Henry Adams, once remarked. Woolverton
places Brooks in his cultural context and shows how this religious
leader was shaped psychologically and by his times and how those
factors helped him forge a spiritual ideal for a troubled nation.
"Not only casts new light on the young manhood of one of the
preeminent Anglican ministers in America, but enhances our
understanding of key cultural trends in the mid-nineteenth
century." -- Anne C. Rose, author of Victorian America and the
Civil War
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