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America's Pastor: Billy Graham and the Shaping of a Nation BY GRANT WACKER BELKNAP, 448 PAGES, $¿7-95
Unlike many accounts of Billy Graham's life and ministry, Grant Wacker's America's Pastor: Billy Graham and the Shaping of a Nation does not construct a heroic fable, nor does he deconstruct the evangelist as a lumbering proselytizer. Rather, we read of "a lanky farm kid from North Carolina" who is a uniquely charismatic and humble human being, dedicated to sharing the Gospel with anyone who will listen.
Wacker's analysis of...