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America's Pastor: Billy Graham and the Shaping of a Nation Hardcover – November 7, 2014
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A striking and authoritative account of one of the most influential Americans of recent times. Wacker writes gracefully and offers a fund of astute insights. By exploring Graham’s background, his character, his beliefs, and his work, he reveals how Graham could move so comfortably among the powerful and at the same time always be able to speak effectively to so many ordinary people. Both Graham’s admirers and his critics will come away from America’s Pastor with a fresh appreciation of the man and his world. (George M. Marsden, author of The Twilight of the American Enlightenment: The 1950s and the Crisis of Liberal Belief)
Grant Wacker has given us a superb—and richly detailed—portrait of Billy Graham, presented in the context of a solid cultural and historical analysis of the era in which Graham served as the kind of religious leader we are not likely to see again. And all of this from a marvelous storyteller. Wacker's deeply moving epilogue can stand alone as a model of inspiring prose! (Richard J. Mouw, Professor of Faith and Public Life and former President, Fuller Theological Seminary)
America's Pastor is a masterful study of the life and influence of Billy Graham. With power and grace, Grant Wacker explains who Graham was, how his message and organization developed, and why he came to exercise such extraordinary influence in America. It is the most incisive—and accessible—study of Billy Graham that has been written. (Nathan O. Hatch, President, Wake Forest University)
Billy Graham has finally gotten the book he deserves. Written by one of the finest American religious historians of our time, this book is as captivating as Graham himself: eloquent, incisive, witty, and empathetic. I couldn't put it down. (Catherine A. Brekus, author of Sarah Osborn’s World: The Rise of Evangelical Christianity in Early America)
Grant Wacker brings his incomparable historical skills to illuminate an icon of American Protestant life. His treatment is at once deeply humane and extraordinarily learned, and he examines Graham’s foundational status with a breathtaking range and savvy. In these pages we come to know Graham, but more importantly, we gain profound insight into the broadest contours of U.S. religious life in the last half of the twentieth century. (Laurie Maffly-Kipp, author of Setting Down the Sacred Past: African-American Race Histories)
Grant Wacker has given us a superb—and richly detailed—portrait of Billy Graham, presented in the context of a solid cultural and historical analysis of the era in which Graham served as the kind of religious leader we are not likely to see again. And all of this from a marvelous storyteller. Wacker's deeply moving epilogue can stand alone as a model of inspiring prose! (Richard J. Mouw, Professor of Faith and Public Life and former President, Fuller Theological Seminary)
America's Pastor is a masterful study of the life and influence of Billy Graham. With power and grace, Grant Wacker explains who Graham was, how his message and organization developed, and why he came to exercise such extraordinary influence in America. It is the most incisive—and accessible—study of Billy Graham that has been written. (Nathan O. Hatch, President, Wake Forest University)
Billy Graham has finally gotten the book he deserves. Written by one of the finest American religious historians of our time, this book is as captivating as Graham himself: eloquent, incisive, witty, and empathetic. I couldn't put it down. (Catherine A. Brekus, author of Sarah Osborn’s World: The Rise of Evangelical Christianity in Early America)
Grant Wacker brings his incomparable historical skills to illuminate an icon of American Protestant life. His treatment is at once deeply humane and extraordinarily learned, and he examines Graham’s foundational status with a breathtaking range and savvy. In these pages we come to know Graham, but more importantly, we gain profound insight into the broadest contours of U.S. religious life in the last half of the twentieth century. (Laurie Maffly-Kipp, author of Setting Down the Sacred Past: African-American Race Histories)
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Grant Wacker is Gilbert T. Rowe Professor of Christian History at Duke University Divinity School.
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