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Recalls the evangelist's turbulent career, from her years as a traveling preacher through the establishment of the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel

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"American Historical Review ""Edith L. Blumhofer is to be congratulated for her detailed, scholarly study. . . Aimee McPherson is an important figure in the history of North American religion and merits attention as a woman who had a major effect on our culture. Yet she has received only modest attention and nothing to match this work, distinguished as it is by a searching and comprehensive scholarship, a rare biography that exists neither to praise nor to bury its subject."" Fides et Historia ""Blumhofer has written the most complete and well-grounded biography of McPherson to date. . . In Blumhofer, Sister has found a scholar who has done her justice. . . Blumhofer has set an admirable standard for all that would follow."" International Bulletin of Missionary Research ""This book is narrative history at its best, and it should appeal to both scholarly and popular audiences."" Provident Book Finder ""The book is readable and provides an excellent introduction to this unique individual."" The Journal of American History ""American survey instructors should consider the book as a way to introduce students to a strong female religious leader; researchers in the field will be impressed by Blumhofer's excellent bibliographical essay."" The Journal of Southern History ""In this engaging, well-researched, and sensitive biography, Edith Blumhofer has succeeded not only in producing a definitive work on her subject but also in opening up new ways of thinking about the popular culture of twentieth-century American Protestantism."""

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Edith L. Blumhofer (1950-2020) was professor of history and former director of the Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals at Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois.

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