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The Shooting Salvationist
David R. Stokes
其他書名
J. Frank Norris and the Murder Trial that Captivated America
出版
Steerforth Press
, 2011-07-12
主題
True Crime / Murder / General
History / United States / State & Local / Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
Religion / Fundamentalism
ISBN
1586421891
9781586421892
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Gs8_AyJdK7EC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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The Shooting Salvationist
chronicles what may be the most famous story you have never heard. In the 1920’s, the Reverend J. Frank Norris railed against vice and conspiracies he saw everywhere to a congregation of more than 10,000 at First Baptist Church in Fort Worth, Texas, the largest congregation in America, the first “megachurch.” Norris controlled a radio station, a tabloid newspaper and a valuable tract of land in downtown Fort Worth. Constantly at odds with the oil boomtown’s civic leaders, he aggressively defended his activism, observing, “John the Baptist was into politics.”
Following the death of William Jennings Bryan, Norris was a national figure poised to become the leading fundamentalist in America. This changed, however, in a moment of violence one sweltering Saturday in July when he shot and killed an unarmed man in his church office. Norris was indicted for murder and, if convicted, would be executed in the state of Texas’ electric chair.
At a time when newspaper wire services and national retailers were unifying American popular culture as never before, Norris’ murder trial was front page news from coast to coast. Set during the Jazz Age, when Prohibition was the law of the land,
The Shooting Salvationist
leads to a courtroom drama pitting some of the most powerful lawyers of the era against each other with the life of a wildly popular, and equally loathed, religious leader hanging in the balance.
www.theshootingsalvationist.com
From the Hardcover edition.