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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Martin, Robert F. (Robert Francis), 1946-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: 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.