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Book Review | The Journal of American History, 86.4 | The History Cooperative
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The Education of Phillips Brooks. By John F. Woolverton. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1995. xiv, 153 pp. $22.50, isbn 0-252-02186-X.)

This insightful little book recaptures the intellectual life of Victorian Boston as it was exemplified in the education of one of the greatest of that city's many noteworthy preachers, Phillips Brooks. Brooks ranks along with George Whitefield as one of the two most effective preachers that American Anglicanism has ever known. Among his contemporaries, only Dwight L. Moody, Henry Ward Beecher, and Horace Bushnell could rival Brooks's power in the pulpit. His influence in the city of Boston can be compared with that of William Ellery Channing or even John Cotton. . . .

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