Billy Sunday and the Redemption of Urban America
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The greatest of the tent and tabernacle revivalists, preaching to over 100 million people from 1908 to 1920, Billy Sunday stands as one of the most significant mass evangelists of the twentieth century. In his full-length biography of Sunday, Lyle Dorsett makes a fresh and original contribution to our understanding of this pugnacious baseball player turned preacher with his use of the Sunday daily papers, a source previously unavailable to biographers.
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Billy Sunday and the Redemption of Urban America
This is a print on demand book and is therefore non- returnable.

The greatest of the tent and tabernacle revivalists, preaching to over 100 million people from 1908 to 1920, Billy Sunday stands as one of the most significant mass evangelists of the twentieth century. In his full-length biography of Sunday, Lyle Dorsett makes a fresh and original contribution to our understanding of this pugnacious baseball player turned preacher with his use of the Sunday daily papers, a source previously unavailable to biographers.
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Billy Sunday and the Redemption of Urban America

Billy Sunday and the Redemption of Urban America

by Lyle Dorsett
Billy Sunday and the Redemption of Urban America

Billy Sunday and the Redemption of Urban America

by Lyle Dorsett

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This is a print on demand book and is therefore non- returnable.

The greatest of the tent and tabernacle revivalists, preaching to over 100 million people from 1908 to 1920, Billy Sunday stands as one of the most significant mass evangelists of the twentieth century. In his full-length biography of Sunday, Lyle Dorsett makes a fresh and original contribution to our understanding of this pugnacious baseball player turned preacher with his use of the Sunday daily papers, a source previously unavailable to biographers.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780802801517
Publisher: Eerdmans, William B. Publishing Company
Publication date: 02/05/1991
Series: Library of Religious Biography (LRB)
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 224
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.52(d)

About the Author

Professor of Christian Education at Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois. He has written and edited a number of books on American urban history and works on C. S. Lewis and G. K. Chesterton.

Table of Contents

Forewordix
Acknowledgmentsxi
Introduction1
1Hard Times (1862-1882)5
2Onward and Upward (1883-1891)17
3The Apprenticeship (1891-1896)43
4The Kerosene Circuit (1896-1907)61
5The Redemption of Urban America (1908-1920)85
6Agony and Decline (1921-1935)124
7Legacy144
Afterword (1935-1957)158
Notes on Sources161
Appendix168
Heaven169
Get on the Water Wagon181
Index208
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