Lyle W. Dorsett

A revealing biography of Billy Sunday

The most colorful of the tent and tabernacle revivalists, preaching to over 100
million people from 1908 to 1920, Billy Sunday stands as one of the most sig-nificant
mass evangelists of the 20th century. Lyle Dorsett makes a fresh and
original contribution to our understanding of this pugnacious baseball player-turned-
preacher with his use of the Sunday family papers.

In this new paperback edition Dorsett provides a new foreword to his classic
work on the famed evangelist.

"Dorsett makes Billy Sunday come alive as a complex person, not a cardboard
caricature. He notes the flaws, but despite all of Sunday's agonies and insecuri-ties,
Dorsett likes the man, and the result is a new awareness of the private
complexity of a public celebrity."

Lyle W. Dorsett is Professor of Christian Formation and Ministries at Wheaton
College. He and his wife Mary founded and currently serve as directors of
Christ for Children International, a mission to the economically and spiritually
impoverished in Mexico. They also helped found the Church of the Great
Shepherd in Wheaton, Illinois, where Dorsett serves as senior pastor. He is the
author of books on C. S. Lewis, Joy Davidman, and G. K. Chesterton.

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192 pages, 6 x 9

978-0-86554-898-5

$20.00t, Paper

Index, Bibliography, Illustrated

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