Hero of the Heartland: Billy Sunday and the Transformation of American Society,1862–1935 by Robert F. Martin

Hero of the Heartland: Billy Sunday and the Transformation of American Society,1862–1935



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Hero of the Heartland: Billy Sunday and the Transformation of American Society,1862–1935 Robert F. Martin
Language: English
Page: 165
Format: pdf
ISBN: 0253341299, 9780253341297
Publisher: Indiana University Press

From Library Journal

Billy Sunday, baseball player for the Chicago Whitestockings, "entrepreneurial evangelist," and the "personification of American manliness," was a phenomenal success in the early part of the 20th century and the object of both great public admiration and criticism. Martin (history, Univ. of Northern Iowa; Howard Kester and the Struggle for Social Justice in the South, 1904-1977) argues that while Sunday was very much a man of his day and nation, he also expounded tratiditional values that the public found comforting and compelling at a time of great economic, social, and demographic change. Beautifully written and based upon exhaustive research, this book is as much a study of America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries as it is a treatment of Sunday's life. Though a number of recent Sunday biographies exist, this concise scholarly study is one larger academic libraries will want to acquire even if they already own others such as Roger A. Bruns's Preacher: Billy Sunday and Big-Time American Evangelism.
Theresa R. McDevitt, Indiana Univ. of Pennsylvania Lib.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Review

"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

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