Title: Preacher : Billy Sunday and big-time American evangelism /
Authors: Bruns, Roger.
Publisher: W.W. Norton,
Year: 1992
Subjects: Sunday, Billy,; Evangelists United States Biography; Revivals United States History; United States Religious life and customs.
Abstract: He wildly tore across the stage, thrashing his arms, kicking, bellowing. He jumped on a chair, then on the pulpit, bent backward like the foil of a fencer's sword, and bobbed back and forth. The thousands in the frenzied crowd gasped. Leaping down, he began to shadowbox the Devil, then threw himself prostrate on the floor. He roared at the crowd, "If you want to live in sin, all right, live in sin, and go to hell in the end." This was the Reverend Billy Sunday at the.
Contents: Prologue : Hallelujah! -- Prairie days -- From sandlots to sawdust -- Revivalist -- The man, the method, the team -- Furies of change -- Up with the Dukes, Devil! -- Away, John Barleycorn! -- Red Emma et. al. -- Of rubicons and Waterloos : Billy in New York -- Joining hands in glory : Billy in Atlanta -- God's grenadier -- Fundamentalists, take arms! -- Amen!