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Sister, Sinner : The Miraculous Life and Mysterious Disappearance of Aimee Semple Mcpherson by Claire Hoffman (2025, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherFarrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-100374601712
ISBN-139780374601713
eBay Product ID (ePID)14067054818
Product Key Features
Book TitleSister, Sinner : the Miraculous Life and Mysterious Disappearance of Aimee Semple Mcpherson
Number of Pages384 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2025
TopicHoaxes & Deceptions, Religious, Christianity / Denominations, Christian Ministry / Evangelism
IllustratorYes
GenreReligion, True Crime, Biography & Autobiography
AuthorClaire Hoffman
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.4 in
Item Weight21.5 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2024-035161
Reviews" Sister, Sinner is a wild ride of a biography, part mystery story and part scandal--but also a penetrating examination of the rise of evangelical religion in America. Along the way, Claire Hoffman explains much about popular culture in America today." --Kai Bird, author of American Prometheus
SynopsisA Must-Read: The New Yorker , The New York Times Book Review , The Millions , Alta "Gripping . . . Wonderfully thorough, the type of biography in which you learn just the right amount about everything . . . Magnificent." --Casey Cep, The New Yorker Sister, Sinner chronicles the dramatic rise, disappearance, and near-fall of Aimee Semple McPherson, America's most famous woman evangelist. On a spring day in 1926, Aimee Semple McPherson wandered into the Pacific Ocean and vanished. Weeks later she reappeared in the desert, claiming to have been kidnapped. A national media frenzy and months of investigation ensued. Who was this woman? America's most famous evangelist, McPherson was a sophisticated marketer who used spectacle, storytelling, and the newest technology--including her own radio station--to bring God's message to the masses. Her innovations brought Pentecostalism into the mainstream, paved the way for televangelists, and shaped the future of American Christianity. Her Angelus Temple in Echo Park, Los Angeles, can be called the first megachurch. Her Foursquare Church continues, with more than eight million faithful around the world. But after her disappearance, as crowds gathered at the water's edge, people asked: Was McPherson everybody's saintly sister, or a con-artist sinner? The story of what happened next--sex scandals, religious persecution, legal shenanigans, the seemingly unshakable faith of thousands of followers, and the race to cover it all--runs through the center of Claire Hoffman's thrilling Sister, Sinner . A riveting journey into the rise of popular religion in America and life in early Hollywood, and told with the flavor of the period's noir mysteries, this is an unforgettable story of an iconic woman, largely overlooked, who changed the world.
LC Classification NumberBX7990.I68H64 2025
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