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By John Wigger

ISBN-10: 0199379718

ISBN-13: 9780199379712

In 1974 Jim and Tammy Bakker introduced their tv convey, the PTL Club, from a former furnishings shop in Charlotte, N.C. with part a dozen acquaintances. by means of 1987 they stood on the middle of a ministry empire that integrated their very own satellite tv for pc community, a 2300-acre subject park visited via six million humans a 12 months, and thousands of adoring enthusiasts. The Bakkers led a lifetime of conspicuous intake completely aligned with the prosperity gospel they preached. They got holiday houses, traveled top notch with an entourage and proclaimed that God sought after each person to be fit and wealthy.

When all of it fell aside, after revelations of a intercourse scandal and big monetary mismanagement, all of the USA watched greater than years of federal research and trial as Jim used to be finally convicted on 24 counts of fraud and conspiracy. He may cross directly to serve 5 years in federal prison.

PTL is greater than simply the stunning tale of the increase and fall of the Bakkers, John Wigger strains their lives from humble beginnings to wealth, repute, and eventual shame. At its middle, PTL is the tale of a gaggle of individuals devoted to spiritual innovation, who driven the limits of evangelical religion's engagement with American culture.

Drawing on trial transcripts, videotapes, newspaper articles, and interviews with key insiders, dissidents, and attorneys, Wigger unearths the ability of faith to redirect American tradition. this can be the tale of a grand imaginative and prescient long gone incorrect, of the ability of massive faith in American existence and its limits.

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