Mike Douglas: When the Going Gets Tough

by Mel White

Portrays the life of the television talk-show host, Mike Douglas, and discusses how his spiritual values have enabled him to overcome personal and professional problems

227 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1983

About the author

James Melville "Mel" White is an American clergyman and author. White was a behind-the-scenes member of the Evangelical Protestant movement through the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, writing film and television specials and ghostwriting auto-biographies for televangelists such as Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, and Billy Graham. After years of writing for the Christian right, he came out as gay in 1994 and devoted himself full-time to minister to lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgender people, also writing extensively on the subject of gay Christians.