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Lawrence Wright

Saints and Sinners

Walker Railey, Jimmy Swaggart, Madalyn Murray O'Hair, Anton LaVey, Will Campbell , Matthew Fox

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In this fascinating book about religion in America, one of this country's most probing yet sympathetic journalists puts forth stories not only of real grace but of despair, sexual scandal, and attempted murder.Lawrence Wright's Saints and Sinners are Jimmy Swaggart, who preached a hellfire gospel with rock 'n' roll abandon before he was caught with a, prostitute in a seedy motel; Anton LaVey, the kitsch-loving, gleefully fraudulent founder of the First Church of Satan; Madalyn Murray O'Hair, whose litigious atheism sometimes resembled a brand of faith; Matthew Fox, the Dominican priest who has aroused the fury of the Vatican for dismissing th… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-307-79071-2
  • EAN: 9780307790712
  • Produktnummer: 15719459
  • Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
  • Seitenangabe: 288 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 2'382 KB

Über den Autor


Lawrence Wright is a staff writer for the New Yorker and the author of nine books of nonfiction, including In the New World, Remembering Satan, The Looming Tower, Going Clear, and Thirteen Days in September, and one novel, God's Favorite. His books have received many prizes and honors, including a Pulitzer Prize for The Looming Tower. He is also a playwright and screenwriter. He and his wife are longtime residents of Austin, Texas.

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