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...