Hero of the heartland : Billy Sunday and the transformation of American society, 1862-1935 / Robert F. Martin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Martin, Robert F. (Robert Francis), 1946-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sunday, Billy, 1862-1935.

Sunday, Billy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 163 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Robert F. Martin demonstrates nicely that, beneath all of Billy Sunday's flamboyance, the orphan-turned-baseball player-turned-evangelist embodied the tensions of his age. Martin's prodigious research has yielded a wealth of anecdotal material that adds flavor and spice to his keen analysis."--Randall Balmer, author of Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: A Journey into the Evangelical Subculture in America. William Ashley "Billy" Sunday was the most popular and influential evangelist of his time.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; ONE A Son of the Middle West; TWO The Diamond and the Cross; THREE Entrepreneurial Evangelism; FOUR Playing the Game for God; FIVE Man Enough to Be a Christian; SIX Progressive Orthodoxy; SEVEN Hero of the Heartland; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [153]-157) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-06317-0

9786612063176

0-253-10421-1

0-253-10952-3

OCLC:

614623875