Gladstone's Influence in America Reactions in the Press to Modern Religion and Politics /

• Main Author: Peterson, Stephen J. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: United States-History.; Great Britain-History.; World politics.; Religion and politics.; Religion-History.; US History.; History of Britain and Ireland.; Political History.; Politics and Religion.; History of Religion.

By the end of the nineteenth century, William Gladstone was arguably the most popular statesman in America since Lincoln. How did a British prime minister achieve such fame in an era of troubled Anglo-American relations? And what do press reactions to Gladstone's policies and published writings...

Table of Contents:

• I. Prologue
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Religion, Politics, and Journalism:The Modern Influence in Nineteenth-Century America
• 3. Religion, Politics, and Journalism: Modern Influences in Nineteenth-Century America.-4. The Specter of Popery: Disestablishing the Irish Church
• 5. Atheism and Politics: The Charles Bradlaugh Imbroglio
• III. Gladstone and the Battle for Orthodox Religion
• 6. Science vs. the Bible: Debating T. H. Huxley
• 7. Battling Aggressive Infidelity: Debating Robert Ingersoll
• 8. Defending Orthodoxy: Reviewing Robert Elsmere and Gladstone's Works of Joseph Butler
• IV. Epilogue
• 9. In Memoriam: America Remembers Gladstone
• 10. Conclusion.