Billy Graham and the Rise of the Republican South. Steven P. Miller

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      POLITICS AND CULTURE

      IN MODERN AMERICA

      SERIES EDITORS

      Glenda Gilmore, Michael Kazin, and

      Thomas J. Sugrue

      Volumes in the series narrate and analyze political and social change in the broadest dimensions from 1865 to the present, including ideas about the ways people have sought and wielded power in the public sphere and the language and institutions of politics at all levels—local, national, and transnational. The series is motivated by a desire to reverse the fragmentation of modern U.S. history and to encourage synthetic perspectives on social movements and the state, on gender, race, and labor, and on intellectual history and popular culture.

      Billy Graham and

      the Rise of the

      Republican South

      Steven P. Miller

       PENN

      UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS

      PHILADELPHIA

      Copyright © 2009 University of Pennsylvania Press

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      University of Pennsylvania Press

      Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-4112

      Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper

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      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Miller, Steven P.

      Billy Graham and the rise of the Republican South / Steven P. Miller.

       p. cm. (Politics and culture in modern America)

      Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.

      ISBN: 978-0-8122-4151-8 (alk. paper)

      1. Graham, Billy, 1918– —Political and social views. 2. Graham, Billy, 1918– —Influence. 3. Civil rights—Southern States—History—20th century. 4. Religion and politics—Southern States. 4. Christianity and politics—Southern States. 5. Evangelists—United States—Biography. 6. Southern States—Race relations—History—20th century. 7. Southern States—Social conditions—20th century. 8. Southern States—Religious life and customs. I. Title.

      BV3785.G69M45 2009

      269'.2092—dc22

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      CONTENTS

       INTRODUCTION

       Billy Graham's New South

       CHAPTER ONE

       “No Segregation at the Altar”

       CHAPTER TWO

       Evangelical Universalism in the Post-Brown South

       CHAPTER THREE

       The Politics of Decency

       CHAPTER FOUR

       “Another Kind of March”

       CHAPTER FIVE

       Billy Graham's Southern Strategy

       CHAPTER SIX

       Crusading for the Sunbelt South

       CHAPTER SEVEN

       “Before the Water Gate”

       EPILOGUE

       Billy Graham and American Conservatism

       NOTES

       ARCHIVAL AND MANUSCRIPT SOURCES

       INDEX

       ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      INTRODUCTION

      Billy Graham's New South

      IN JUNE 2005, an elderly Billy Graham returned to New York City, five decades after a foundational moment in his evangelistic career, when he had led a crusade that stretched on for four months in that most secular of American locales. This time, stricken with prostate cancer and symptoms of Parkinson's disease, among other health problems, and reliant on a special lectern that allowed him to sit while preaching, the white-haired Graham held only three services during what was billed as his final domestic crusade. Most of the 230,000-plus attendees knew what to expect from this evangelistic lion in winter. Many elements of Graham's services had remained largely unchanged since the 1950s: the bass-baritone of soloist George Beverley Shea, the volunteer choir and ushers drawn from area churches, the climactic and solemn moment of invitation, and—of course—the presence of celebrities and politicians on the crusade platform. The highest-profile guests in Flushing Meadows were Hillary and Bill Clinton, who feted the evangelist. Standing with Graham at the pulpit, the former president said his admiration for the evangelist had its origins in an integrated СКАЧАТЬ