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During a profession spanning 60 years, the Reverend Billy Graham's resonant words and chiseled profile entered the living rooms of an incredible number of Americans with a note that called for personal change through God's sophistication. How did a lanky farm kid from North Carolina become an evangelist hailed by the press as "America's pastor"? Why did listeners young and old put out their grief and loneliness in letters to a man they knew only through televised "Crusades" in faraway places like Madison Square Garden? Greater than a conventional biography, Offer Wacker's interpretive review deepens our understanding of why Billy Graham has mattered a whole lot to so many. You start with tent revivals in the 1940s, Graham changed his born-again theology into a moral vocabulary acquiring the worries and aspirations of average People in america. He possessed an uncanny potential to appropriate trends in the wider culture and involved boldly with significant trends of his time, from communism and nuclear menace to poverty and civil protection under the law. The enduring interpretation of his profession, in Wacker's research, sits at the intersection of Graham's own creative company and the makes shaping modern America. Wacker paints a richly textured family portrait: a self-deprecating servant of God and self-promoting press mogul, a simple family man and confidant of presidents, a plainspoken preacher and the "Protestant pope." America's Pastor unveils how this Southern fundamentalist grew, fitfully, into a capacious number at the guts of spiritual life for an incredible number of Christians round the world.
