Jim Bakker: Miscarriage of Justice?

by James Albert

Book Overview

Anyone who has followed the roller coaster-like saga of PTL will want to read this absorbing inside story. Albert, a law professor and trial attorney, has investigated the Bakker/PTL story extensively... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812693701
• ISBN13: 9780812693706
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Open Court
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

doghouse

the doghouse was heated, not air conditioned. they lived in a cold climate and had yorkies.

Jim Bakker: Miscarriage of Justice

Set aside your current read and delve into this book ! Albert ask the question, was an innocent man sent to jail ? The answer is unequivcally YES ! Jesus was put on the cross for who He was, an innocent man. Joseph (coat of many colors) was accused of sexual assault and spent 11 years behind bars for a crime he never commited and Jim Bakker was tried and condemned before his trial. If there were ever a 21st century "type of Christ" it's Jim Bakker.

A real eye-opener

The book manages to be easy and fun to read while also backing up its statements with hard, well-documented facts (including footnotes, no less). A real eye-opener. At the time of the Bakker meltdown, I, like most people, didn't look past Tammy Faye's make-up or the air-conditioned doghouse before I passed judgment. I was a skeptic when I approached the book. Now, I'm convinced Bakker didn't receive a fair trial. I may never have read this book had the author not been a professor here at Drake Law School, but I'm glad I did. I think that if you have any interest in the subject at all -- no matter what your attitude toward televangelists, Jim Bakker, the law, or religion in general -- you should read this book. There's more to this story than the late-night TV jokes we all heard and, unfortunately, believed.

A MUST READ FOR ANONE INTERESTED IN JIM BAKKER

JIM ALBERT DOES HIS HOME WORK...ABOUT FIVE YEARS...ABOUT TIME SOMEONE WROTE THIS BOOK.

Required reading for anyone wanting the whole truth!

Some think the Miscarriage of Justice should have been called The Indictment of the Prosecution of James Bakker. If you've wanted to know the real truth behind Jim Bakker's trial, (and don't want to pay the fifteen cents a page for more than 4,000 pages of the transcript to decide for yourself) then you should read this book. Law Professor James Albert (with the help of his students) has done an exceptional job, taking the 4,000 pages of trial transcripts, pulling out the important relevant details, and chronologically integrating it with testimony from the Bakkers, PTL partners, prosecuting & defense attorneys, and jurors. Trial testimony and exhibits have also been included, so that you can decide the case for yourself. Jim & Tammy credit God with their rise from an obscure ministry to heading a multibillion dollar ministry known as the PTL network, whose broadcasting power was such , that even presidential candidates sought the endorsement of PTL and its followers. At the height of this success, a scandal arises, the ministry falls, and the whole world starts to turn against Jim & Tammy. Oral and written testimony are given which answers questions the reader would likely have. What were the charges against Jim? Why did the government prosecute him? Was the government willing to subvert justice to gain a conviction at any cost? Were the Judge and Jury fair and unbiased? What was Jim's defense? What happened during and after the trial? What happened to Jim and Tammy's faith in God? Was the conviction deserved, or was it the result of various parties seeking to bring down the ministry at any cost? Were church leaders seeking to gain the multi-million dollar ministry for themselves? Who stayed loyal to Jim in the midst of the trials, and who would turn against him? The ultimate question is whether Jim was a master con-man preying upon the elderly, or a man of God who being human, sinned? After reading this book, you may wonder if the political establishment, had some role in encouraging the prosecution for a conviction, to remove James Bakker, the PTL Ministry and its political power, from the political arena. Unfortunately, this book does not answer that issue. Some trial transcripts can be boring and monotonous. However, James Albert gives a captivating, easy to read book, that intersperses the testimony, with humorous and juicy details such as why the dog house had an air conditioner, or what did the Judge and jury think about Tammy's singing? From the heights of international acclaim, through the fall, the trials, the lonely depths of prison, to Jim's release, the book chronicles relevant testimony and provides additional evidence the jury never got to see, so you can decide for yourself if Jim was guilty as charged, or a "Miscarriage of Justice." This book will be particularly interesting to anyone who likes to read about justice, church & state, political and religio