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Sister Aimee

The Life of Aimee Semple McPherson

by Daniel Mark Epstein
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The true story of America’s first superstar evangelist that “fills a significant gap in the history of revivalism” (The New York Times Book Review).
 
Once she answered the divine calling, Aimee Semple McPherson rose fast from unfulfilled housewife in Rhode Island to “miracle woman”—the most enigmatic, pioneering, media-savvy Christian evangelist in the country. She preached up and down the United States, traveling in a 1912 Packard with her mother and her children—and without a man to fix flat tires. Her ministry was rolled out in tents, concert halls, boxing rings, and speakeasies. She prayed for the healing of hundreds of thousands of people, founded the Foursquare Church, and built a Pentecostal temple in Los Angeles of Hollywood-epic dimensions (Charlie Chaplin advised her on sets). But this is not just a story of McPherson’s cult of fame. It’s also the story about its price: exhaustion, insomnia, nervous breakdowns, sexual scandals, loneliness, and the notorious public disgrace that nearly destroyed her.
 
A “powerhouse biography of perhaps the most charismatic and controversial woman in modern religious history,” Sister Aimee is, above all, the life story of a unique woman, of the power of passion that rejects compromise, and a faith that would not be shaken (Kirkus Reviews).
 
“[Told] with insight, empathy and lyrical power . . . Daniel Mark Epstein sees the facts, and feels the mystery, and he has written a remarkable book.” —Los Angeles Times

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    February 11, 2014

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      • ISBN: 9780547544984

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  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      June 27, 1994
      A sensational biography of the celebrated early 20th-century evangelist.

    • Publisher's Weekly

      March 1, 1993
      At the height of her fame, evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson (1890-1944) could draw 5000 enthusiastic followers to her Los Angeles Angelus Temple to hear her charismatic preaching and to watch lavish reenactments of biblical scenes. With prodigious research, poet and playwright Epstein ( No Vacancies in Hell ) recreates McPherson's early years as a doubter, her dramatic embrace of the gospel and her marriage to Pentecostal minister Robert Semple. After his death, she married Harold McPherson, whom she left to cross the country with her mother and children, building a tent-top, grass-roots revival and faith healing movement. The account of McPherson's later years, when she was wealthy and successful and her ``Foursquare Gospel'' ministry was wracked by sexual and financial scandal (including her own possibly faked kidnapping), is flawed by Epstein's overly sympathetic attitude. This competent portrait is not the definitive biography of its flamboyant and controversial subject.

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