Book Review: "The Preacher and the Presidents: Billy Graham in the White House" by Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy (The Prayer Foundation)

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The Preacher and the Presidents

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Authors: Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy

At a time when the nation is increasingly split over the place of religion in public life, The Preacher and the Presidents reveals how the world's most powerful men and world's most famous evangelist, Billy Graham, knit faith and politics together.

"Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy, both veterans at TIME Magazine, have that peculiar gift among newsmagazine writers for being able to shape masses of complex and contradictory information into a compelling narrative. Even better, they have...packed their story full of details so delicious that even if you've read them before you're happy to read them again. They...show a lion in his winter, turning over the events of his extraordinary life sweetly, with pride, puzzlement and remorse."

-Newsweek Magazine August 20, 2007

"Finely wrought...Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy's smartly written, thoroughly researched book...represents a major advance in our understanding of Graham and, more broadly, religion in modern American political life. The Author, both prize-winning journalists for TIME, not only know how to tell a fast-paced story, but also know how to ask the right questions of the many people -- including Graham and former presidents -- they interviewed."

-The Chicago Tribune August 18, 2007

No one man or woman has ever been in a position to see the presidents, and the presidency, so intimately, over so many years. They called him in for photo ops.

They called for comfort.

They asked about death and salvation; about sin and forgiveness. They asked how the world would end. At a time when the nation is increasingly split over the place of religion in public life, The Preacher and the Presidents reveals how the world's most powerful men---from Harry Truman to George W. Bush---and the world's most famous evangelist, Billy Graham, knit faith and politics together for the last five decades.

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Image: Front cover of the book, "The Preacher and the Presidents: Billy Graham in the White House" by Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy. ___________________________

presidents, their families, and top aides from many administrations, including Johnson, Nixon, Carter, Ford, and Reagan.

All have been generous with their memories of Graham and his presidential influence.

Information gathered from presidential libraries and other sources make this a truly unprecedented chronicling of Billy Graham and his relationship with the White House.

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