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American Saint is a lively and engaging read. Wigger is an excellent writer and the book is written in a style accessible to non-academics...comprehensive and meticulously researched...the finest biography ever written on Asbury and it should be owned by any student, scholar, or layperson with an interest in Methodist or--for that matter--early American history. Michael K. Turner, Wesley and Methodist Studies [a] masterful, nuanced portrait Charles Wallace, Journal of American Studies

<br> Undeniably the most comprehensive and scholarly biography of Francis Asbury written in more than a century, John Wigger's American Saint fills a major gap in the historiography of American religion. This lively and well-researched narrative that includes more than one hundred pages of endnotes superbly expresses the character of a British immigrant from a working-class heritage whose labors significantly transformed the religious landscape of postrevolutionary America. --Terry D. Bilhartz, The Journal of American History<br> Splendid... --Mark Noll, Christian Century<br> an amazing new book... -- David Crumm, Read the Spirit <br> Francis Asbury had an immense influence in shaping the early American Republic in that he promoted and oversaw the phenomenal growth of the fledgling Methodist movement at a rate that would soon make it America's largest Protestant denomination. John Wigger provides a definitive and illuminating biography that is to be recommended to all who wish to

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John Wigger is Associate Professor of History at the University of Missouri.

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