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The true story of Americaâs first superstar evangelist that âfills a significant gap in the history of revivalismâ (The New York Times Book Review).  Once she answered the divine calling, Aimee Semple McPherson rose fast from unfulfilled housewife in Rhode Island to âmiracle womanââthe 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 childrenâand 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 McPhersonâs cult of fame. Itâs also the story about its price: exhaustion, insomnia, nervous breakdowns, sexual scandals, loneliness, and the notorious public disgrace that nearly destroyed her.  A âpowerhouse biography of perhaps the most charismatic and controversial woman in modern religious history,â 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).  â[Told] with insight, empathy and lyrical power . . . Daniel Mark Epstein sees the facts, and feels the mystery, and he has written a remarkable book.â âLos Angeles Times |
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