Hero of the heartland : Billy Sunday and the transformation of American society, 1862-1935 /
"Robert F. Martin demonstrates nicely that, beneath all of Billy Sunday's flamboyance, the orphan-turned-baseball player-turned-evangelist embodied the tensions of his age. Martin's prodigious research has yielded a wealth of anecdotal material that adds flavor and spice to his keen a...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
©2002.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments; Introduction; ONE A Son of the Middle West; TWO The Diamond and the Cross; THREE Entrepreneurial Evangelism; FOUR Playing the Game for God; FIVE Man Enough to Be a Christian; SIX Progressive Orthodoxy; SEVEN Hero of the Heartland; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author.