More than simply the most important American minister of the 20th century, Billy Graham was a world leader who changed the way the Word was spread. This TIME Commemorative Edition – Billy America’s Preacher , traces Graham from his rural roots in North Carolina through his schooling, his marriage, his fatherhood and his ascension to global influence through the spiritual crusades that drew so many thousands of people across the nation and the world. A beautifully told narrative is augmented by rare and powerful images in a keepsake that explores an extraordinary life, including Graham's 64-year commitment to his adored wife Ruth, and the many people he reached and helped to guide.
A special exploration of Graham’s relationships with U.S. Presidents from Truman to Reagan to Obama, and how he recalls his friendships with the men in the oval office.
Before I'd read this book, I had somehow failed to recognize before then that the indomitable but soft-spoken "America's Preacher" Billy Graham was just as plain–spoken and ordinarily practical within his own upbringing and unswervingly unabated moral values, as are many of the rest f us. within this post-Republican, post-COVID moral & politically polarizing American political landscape which the majority of us now inhabit.
If you only allow yourself a crack at one biography this year, perhaps it ought to be this one.