America's Pastor: Billy Graham and the Shaping of a Nation

by Grant Wacker

Book Overview

During a career spanning sixty years, the Reverend Billy Graham's resonant voice and chiseled profile entered the living rooms of millions of Americans with a message that called for personal transformation through God's grace. How did a lanky farm kid from North Carolina become an evangelist hailed by the media as "America's pastor"? Why did listeners young and old pour out their grief and loneliness in letters to a man they knew only through...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674052188
• ISBN13: 9780674052185
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.6" x 9.5"