Titre : |
Charles Colson : a story of power, corruption, and redemption |
Type de document : |
texte imprimé |
Auteurs : |
John Perry, Auteur |
Editeur : |
Nashville, Tenn : Broadman and Holman Pub |
Année de publication : |
c2003 |
Importance : |
XII, 258 p. |
Présentation : |
illustrations |
Format : |
24 cm |
ISBN/ISSN/EAN : |
978-0-8054-2512-3 |
Note générale : |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Langues : |
Anglais (eng) Langues originales : Anglais (eng) |
Catégories : |
Christian converts -- United States -- Biography. Colson, Charles W. Colson, Charles W. -- (1931- ...)
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Index. décimale : |
BV 4935 .C63 |
Résumé : |
Before he was forty, ex-marine captain Charles Colson was appointed special counsel to President Richard Nixon. He later became Nixon's Watergate hatchet man. By the time Nixon resigned in the summer of 1974, Colson was a convicted felon. In prison, his religious conversion, which had begun before he started his sentence, was fortified and reaffirmed. When he was released, he founded Prison Fellowship Ministries, |
Note de contenu : |
Two of a kind --
A very fortunate young man --
Big ambitions --
The job of a lifetime --
Into the deep end --
The levers of power --
Lightning rod --
Hatchet man --
"Let's get on it" --
No air of triumph --
A sinking ship --
In the crosshairs --
The great sin --
A new perspective --
"If Christianity is true . . ." --
Innocence and guilt --
The gavel falls --
Holabird --
Freedom --
Back inside --
To the least of these. |
Charles Colson : a story of power, corruption, and redemption [texte imprimé] / John Perry, Auteur . - Nashville, Tenn : Broadman and Holman Pub, c2003 . - XII, 258 p. : illustrations ; 24 cm. ISBN : 978-0-8054-2512-3 Includes bibliographical references and index. Langues : Anglais ( eng) Langues originales : Anglais ( eng)
Catégories : |
Christian converts -- United States -- Biography. Colson, Charles W. Colson, Charles W. -- (1931- ...)
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Index. décimale : |
BV 4935 .C63 |
Résumé : |
Before he was forty, ex-marine captain Charles Colson was appointed special counsel to President Richard Nixon. He later became Nixon's Watergate hatchet man. By the time Nixon resigned in the summer of 1974, Colson was a convicted felon. In prison, his religious conversion, which had begun before he started his sentence, was fortified and reaffirmed. When he was released, he founded Prison Fellowship Ministries, |
Note de contenu : |
Two of a kind --
A very fortunate young man --
Big ambitions --
The job of a lifetime --
Into the deep end --
The levers of power --
Lightning rod --
Hatchet man --
"Let's get on it" --
No air of triumph --
A sinking ship --
In the crosshairs --
The great sin --
A new perspective --
"If Christianity is true . . ." --
Innocence and guilt --
The gavel falls --
Holabird --
Freedom --
Back inside --
To the least of these. |
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