Book Review Pastor Evangelist Billy Graham of America

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.

Billy Graham life started on a dairy farm near Charlotte, North Carolina , on November 7, 1918Florida Bible Institute offered Graham opportunities crucial for his career.
After graduating in 1943, Billy accepted the pulpit of tiny Baptist church.
in 1944 Graham had Chicago radio program called Songs in the night.
The year 1954 saw Graham's massive crusade in London and then at Madison Square Garden.
The Billy Graham Evangelist Association was established in 1950.
In 2007, poll data showed that nearly a third of American under the age of 30 did not recognize Grahams name.
Graham invested great deal of energy in "prophecy watching".
Chapter one theology and beliefs of Billy Graham.
Graham read his sermons.
Make a decision for Christ.
Chapter 3 Icon
Graham's All Hour of Decision.
Graham's face graced the covers of major national magazines at least twenty-eight times.
Image as family man.

Chapter 3 Southerner
Civil Rights
Very nice interesting pictures of Billy Graham in the book .
with john Kennedy, family dinner table.
with Dwight Eisenhower, with Johnny Cash.
In Seal South Korea with one million people attending.
With Obama.
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The book is great but boring many pages one after another with no sections and subtitles like running water.