Born Again

This is a wonderful book how God worked through a man's life while he was in prison and used this time for us glory

Excellent read I recommend to anybody. Decided to buy this quite some time ago, and it was almost "left on the shelf". Honest and personal views of how the author got it all wrong in his life, and the life changing experiences he went through after Watergate.

A book for the born again Christian but also for the prodigal who think it too late to experience a personal relationship with Christ. This book has to be one of the most inspiring I have ever purchased. Be prepared to shed a few tears

I WAS VERY IMPRESSED BY THE SPEED OF THE DELIVERY OF THIS ITEM. IT WAS WELL WORTH WAITING FOR YOU GREAT QUALITY

Excellent true life story of a man really 'born again'. Having read this many years ago, I bought this copy for a friend who 'could not put it down'; and now it is doing the rounds with similar affect.

Drawn to the read because I heard it mentioned by Alistair Begg. It’s a book in two parts; the first section devoted to the American politics of the time, which was obviously essential to knowing the man Chuck Colson before he recognised his need of God. I found I just wanted to know more and more about his journey and experience once he had been convicted. Very inspiring!

a great read

Good book

I have been doing a reading surge these past few months on Vietnam and the Nixon years so when a friend recommended this book it caught my interest. Mr. Colson was a key cog in the White House during the Nixon presidency and his description of this time was fascinating. Mr. Colson’s describes in detail his transition from his own state of hubris to humility, after the Watergate scandal hit. He was never convicted of anything related to the Watergate scandal but he pleaded guilty to his part in trying to discredit Daniel Ellsberg by using untruths after Ellsberg had leaked the “Pentagon Papers”. His guilty plea surprised the prosecutors because it was not expected and nor had anyone ever been convicted in a similar circumstance. Also, he clearly followed the Nixon’s orders; however this was Mr. Colson’s way of receiving closure on the entire Watergate issue -- his way of accepting responsibility for the decay that had set into the White House. Mr. Colson had been known a Nixon “bull dog” that looked after tough and sticky task that Nixon required, thus the breaking of such a strong personality was not something people saw coming. Though Mr. Colson’s was a believer before Watergate, this life crisis resulted in a new dedication of his life to Christianity. His conversion resulted in his preemptive guilty plea, shocked his own lawyer, resulted in prison time, and led to the loss of his ability to practice law. The last third of the book is Colson’s vivid description of his time in prison and how he at first survived and ultimately thrived. His writing is so clear you feel like you are locked up with him as he enters the frightening world of a U.S. Federal prison. He describes how many inmates are permanently mentally damaged as they try to tune-out the world to survive their incarnation years, but then cannot snap out of this state when they are released. The book ends with Mr. Colson’s release from prison, but you can see how this experience set up Mr. Colson’s subsequent life work of helping inmates in their families. A very good book.

Such a well written book. Inspiring in its deep dive into human frailty and God's answer of hope and change.

I had the unique privilege of working with Chuck for three years. But before I ever knew that I would, I read this book -- not expecting much. At the time, like most people, I thought Colson was using his "conversion" to make himself more palatable to the public. I found that I was wrong -- terribly wrong. Hence, when the opportunity came to work for him, I leaped at it. The thing that caused me to find this book so compelling, is Colson's naked honesty with himself. It is the story of one man searching his soul after being involved in the political wasteland. In this book as well as in his life, Colson proves something which I believe most profoundly: when someone reaches for God, God always reaches back. -- Paul Morris, author of The Justus Scrolls.

The book is great but the Kindle version is terrible. It doesn't always capitalize the first letter of a sentence, will capitalize either the first name but not the last name (or vice versa) of a person's name, leaves out words and hyphenates words such as every-thing, la-bored, erst-while, etc. It almost seemed as though they were expecting these words to be at the end of the line and would have to be split so that the second part would appear on the next line. But I couldn't find any font size that would require the word to be split at the end of a line. I love the story but be prepared to overlook the poor quality of the conversion of the book from print to e-version.

I love this book. Although I am old enough to remember Watergate, I was a child when it happened and I had never read anything about it until now. I am a born again Christian like Mr. Colson. I am extremely grateful to God that I have never served time in prison like Mr. Colson did, I have endured hard times in my life and so I am able to relate to him and his spiritual experiences. I am not sure what inspired me to read Mr. Colsons book at this time in my life, but I am grateful to God for the inspiration. Through this book I feel that I got to know Mr. Colson. I found him to be a warm, generous, caring man who was able to take a terrible experience and turn it into an opportunity to help others. God bless you dear Mr. Colson.