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Title America's pastor : Billy Graham and the shaping of a nation / Grant Wacker.
Publisher Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014.
Copyright ©2014
Description 413 pages, 16 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations, photographs ; 25 cm


LOCATION CALL NUMBER VOL BARCODE LAST CHECKIN STATUS
 CK-Upper Level  B GRAHAM Nearby on shelf  30601003307377 02-20-19  AVAILABLE
 CW-Adult Upper Level Non-Fiction  B GRAHAM  30620004904560 (none)  AVAILABLE
 DP-Biography  B Graham Nearby on shelf  32244202245094 07-20-18  AVAILABLE
 EI-Adult Collection  269.2092 WAC Nearby on shelf  30626002867048 (none)  AVAILABLE
 HF-Adult Nonfiction  BIOGRAPHY GRAHAM,B W Nearby on shelf  30632003226663 01-22-15  AVAILABLE
 HM-Main Level  269.2092 WAC  31248007589821 (none)  AVAILABLE
 IS-Lower Stacks  269.2092 WACKER Nearby on shelf  30634002633261 (none)  AVAILABLE
 NB-Upper Stacks  BIO GRAHAM, B. Nearby on shelf  32210003892160 01-15-15  AVAILABLE
 NS-Adult Collection  B GRAHAM  30651003084351 08-13-18  AVAILABLE
 PM-Adult Collection  B GRAHAM WAC Nearby on shelf  30643005230165 12-23-21  AVAILABLE

BIBLIOGRAPHY Includes bibliographical references (pages [319]-396) and index.
Contents Preacher -- Icon -- Southerner -- Entrepreneur -- Architect -- Pilgrim -- Pastor -- Patriarch.
Summary More than a conventional biography, Grant Wacker's interpretive study deepens our understanding of why Billy Graham has mattered so much to so many, and how his uncanny ability to appropriate trends in the wider culture allowed him to transform his born-again theology into a moral vocabulary capturing the aspirations and fears of average Americans.
Subject Graham, Billy, 1918-2018
Christianity and culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Genre Biographies.
Other title Billy Graham and the shaping of a nation.
ISBN 9780674052185
0674052188