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ISBN: 9780802801517 - Billy Sunday and the Redemption of Urban America
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Billy Sunday and the Redemption of Urban America

Lyle W. Dorsett
Hatch, Nathan O. Noll, Mark A.

ISBN: 9780802801517
Format: Paperback
Publisher:William B Eerdmans Publishing Co


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Recounts the life of the baseball player-turned-preacher, known for his tent and tabernacle revivals in the early part of the twentieth century.

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This is the first full-length treatment of mass-evangelist Billy Sunday to appear in 30 years. Lyle Dorsett makes a fresh and original contribuion to our understanding of this pugnaious baseball player-turned-preacher with his use of the Sunday family papers, a source previously unavailable to biographers.
 
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