04567cam a2200673Ki 4500 ocn894226887 OCoLC 20200709060254.0 m d cr cnu---unuuu 141103s2014 maua ob 001 0deng d N$T eng rda pn N$T CFT YDXCP OCLCQ JSTOR E7B OCLCO VLB EBLCP DEBSZ OCL AGLDB OCLCQ OCLCO JBG IOG DEGRU MERUC OCLCA KIJ OCLCF OCL OCLCO 896849991 984656985 1013966748 9780674736276 (electronic bk.) 0674736273 (electronic bk.) 9780674052185 (hbk. ; alk. paper) 0674052188 (hbk. ; alk. paper) 881687 (N$T) (OCoLC)894226887 (OCoLC)896849991 (OCoLC)984656985 (OCoLC)1013966748 22573/ctt991r16 JSTOR n-us--- BV3785.G69 W33 2014eb REL 012120 bisacsh BIO018000 bisacsh 269/.2092 23 MAIN Wacker, Grant, 1945- America's pastor : Billy Graham and the shaping of a nation / Grant Wacker. Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014. 1 online resource (413 pages) : illustrations text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. Preacher -- Icon -- Southerner -- Entrepreneur -- Architect -- Pilgrim -- Pastor -- Patriarch. Print version record. 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 televised "Crusades" in faraway places like Madison Square Garden? More than a conventional biography, Grant Wacker's interpretive study deepens our understanding of why Billy Graham has mattered so much to so many. Beginning with tent revivals in the 1940s, Graham transformed his born-again theology into a moral vocabulary capturing the fears and aspirations of average Americans. He possessed an uncanny ability to appropriate trends in the wider culture and engaged boldly with the most significant developments of his time, from communism and nuclear threat to poverty and civil rights. The enduring meaning of his career, in Wacker's analysis, lies at the intersection of Graham's own creative agency and the forces shaping modern America. Wacker paints a richly textured portrait: a self-deprecating servant of God and self-promoting media mogul, a simple family man and confidant of presidents, a plainspoken preacher and the "Protestant pope." America's Pastor reveals how this Southern fundamentalist grew, fitfully, into a capacious figure at the center of spiritual life for millions of Christians around the world. Master record variable field(s) change: 600 Graham, Billy, 1918-2018. Graham, Billy, 1918-2018 fast (OCoLC)fst00035442 Christianity and culture United States History 20th century. RELIGION Christian Life Spiritual Growth. bisacsh BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Religious. bisacsh Christianity and culture. fast (OCoLC)fst00859660 United States. fast (OCoLC)fst01204155 1900-1999 fast Electronic books. History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628 Print version: Wacker, Grant, 1945- America's pastor 9780674052185 (DLC) 2014014155 (OCoLC)875999870 EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=881687 EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=e000xna&AN=881687 EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=881687 EBL - Ebook Library EBLB EBL3301521 ebrary EBRY ebr10962112 EBSCOhost EBSC 881687 YBP Library Services YANK 11933360 De Gruyter DEGR 9780674736276 92 N$T 55705 55705