Volume 44, Number 9 · May 29, 1997
How He Lost It
By Martin Gardner
I Was Wrong
by Jim Bakker
Thomas Nelson, 647 pp., $24.99
Tammy: Telling It My Way
by Tammy Faye Messner
Villard, 339 pp., $22.95
Jim Bakker's confessional I Was Wrong is a remarkable work in many respects, not least of which is the skill with which it is written. His earlier autobiography, Move That Mountain (1976), was a ghostwritten potboiler. I Was Wrong acknowledges the help of Ken Abraham, 'who used his skills to craft this book.' (The last of his many thanks is 'to my best friend who never left me…Jesus!') However it was crafted, the book is Bakker's solemn effort to tell the story of his sudden rise to be one of the nation's most successful televangelists, and the sudden downfall in which he lost his ministry, his freedom, his self-respect, and his wife.
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