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Also posted today is a review of Aitken's biography of Chuck Colson.

Charles W. Colson: A Life Redeemed is available from Christianbook.com and other book retailers.

Chuck Colson's columns for Christianity Today are available from our website.

Colson's Breakpoint commentaries and more about his work with Prison Fellowship is available online.

Stan Guthrie interviewed Colson about the revelation of the identity of "Deep Throat."

Colson's latest book is The Good Life, which is available from Christianbook.com and other book retailers.

CT profiled Colson in 2001: The Legacy of Prisoner 23226 | Twenty-six years after leaving prison, Charles Colson has become one of America's most significant social reformers. (June 29, 2001)

Reviews of the biography published elsewhere include:

Born Again, Again | A new biography of Charles Colson is yet another cover-up. (Washington Monthly, July/August 2005)

Charles Colson's salvation | Now that Deep Throat's name has been revealed, perhaps it's time to examine another Watergate figure whose identity has confounded observers for over 30 years: Chuck Colson. British journalist Jonathan Aitken tries to set the record straight about the political life and the spiritual transformation of a man who never seems to be far from the headlines. (Washington Examiner, July 18, 2005

Better Not To Have Sinned | It is not every biographer who can claim that he, like his subject, has served a prison sentence. Jonathan Aitken, a former British M.P. and cabinet minister, served a seven-month sentence for perjury in a civil case. Charles Colson went to prison in the wake of the Watergate scandal. (New York Sun, July 13, 2005)

Editorial: Charles Colson and the Mission That Began with Watergate | There is nothing particularly unusual about a conservative Republican gravitating to evangelical Christianity, though given his record, his critics were skeptical. (Harriet Van Horne, the liberal columnist, wrote that "If he isn't embarrassed by this sudden excess of piety, then surely the Lord must be.") What is remarkable, though, is the other role he took on: impassioned, even radical, prison reformer. (The New York Times, July 25, 2005)

Slate magazine profiled Colson in 2000 and called him "one of America's greatest Christian leaders" but worried that he's becoming "just another Gary Bauer."

John Perry is author of an earlier Colson biography: Charles Colson: A Story of Power, Corruption, and Redemption. It is available from Christianbook.com and other book retailers..

Wikipedia has a short summary of Jonathan Aitken rise and fall. Aitken told his story at St George's Church (audio, scroll down), in Leeds. Holy Trinity Brompton has a transcript of a talk Aitken gave to an Alpha course there.

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