Sister Aimee by Daniel Mark Epstein
In Wichita she held up her hand to stop the rain. Aimee Semple McPherson was consecrated to God, before she was born, by her mother, a soldier of the Salvation Army. She was a scamp in school, a young widow in China, and a neurotic housewife in Rhode Island. But when the Lord spoke to her as she was at death's door, she accepted her ministry. She preached up and down the United States, traveling in a 1912 Packard with her mother and her children, without a man to fix tires. She preached in tents, concert halls, boxing rings, and speakeasies, prayed for the healing of hundreds of thousands of people, founded a Church, built a Pentecostal temple of Hollywood dimensions in Los Angeles (Charlie Chaplin advised her on sets, Anthony Quinn played saxophone in the pit), and she became, in the 1920s and 1930s, such a celebrity that the press publicly thanked her for having given work to so many journalists. Sister Aimee is the story of a unique woman; of the power of passion that rejects compromise and a faith that will not be shaken. But it is also the story of the price of fame. Exhaustion, insomnia, nervous breakdowns, sexual scandals, lawsuits, and ultimately loneliness.Daniel Mark Epstein is the author of biographies of Abraham Lincoln, Walt Whitman, Aimee Semple McPherson, Nat King Cole, and Edna St. Vincent Millay, as well as Aimee Semple McPherson, Nat King Cole, and Edna St. Vincent Millay. There are seven books of poetry by Vincent Millay. His poetry has published in magazines such as The Atlantic, The New Yorker, and The Paris Review, among others. Epstein received the Rome Prize and an Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1977 and 2006, respectively. Daniel Mark Epstein is a Baltimore resident. Daniel Mark Epstein's website is www.danielmarkepstein.com.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780156000932 |
| ISBN 10 | 0156000938 |
| Title | Sister Aimee |
| Author | Daniel Mark Epstein |
| Series | Harvest Book |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | HarperOne |
| Year published | 1994-06-27 |
| Number of pages | 512 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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