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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


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 EI-Adult Collection  269.2092 WAC Nearby on shelf  30626002867048 (none)  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