Gordon Brown - power with purpose James MacIntyre, Bloomsbury, £25WITH this book, James MacIntyre presents a comprehensive and complimentary assessment of the life and works of former prime minister Gordon Brown.MacIntyre visits all of the usual landmarks of Brown’s life: the son of a Church of Scotland minister, emerging from the industrially run-down area of Fife in Scotland; the new Labour reforming agenda shaped by himself and Tony Blair; and the subsequent combustible relationship between the two men.