Volume 26, Number 13 · August 16, 1979
The Portable Canterbury
By Elizabeth Hardwick
Billy Graham: A Parable of American Righteousness
by Marshall Frady
Little, Brown, 546 pp., $12.95
Billy Graham: Evangelist to the World
by John Pollock
Harper & Row, 324 pp., $10.00
Angels: God's Secret Agents
by Billy Graham
Doubleday, 175 pp., $4.95
'Whatever else,' Marshall Frady writes about Billy Graham, 'he has transmuted into a peculiar sort of megacelebrity, megastar of his age: his rangy wheat-haired form has been personally beheld, the reverberant bay of his voice immediately heard, by more people over the face of the earth than any other single human being in the history of the race.' Yes, yes. As Robert Frost once said, 'Hell is a half-filled auditorium.'
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