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"Taiz has crafted a compelling story about evangelism and urban relief in America, and she tells it in remarkably crisp prose. Armchair Army-ites and scholars alike will enjoy this book. (""Publishers Weekly"") Taiz's history of the Salvation Army should be mandatory reading for all those politicians who call for faith communities to become more involved in charity. (Colleen McDannell, University of Utah) An engrossing book on a fascinating encounter between America's working classes and imported British evangelicalism. (Jon Butler, Yale University)"

Taiz has crafted a compelling story about evangelism and urban relief in America, and she tells it in remarkably crisp prose. Armchair Army-ites and scholars alike will enjoy this book. ( Publishers Weekly )

An engrossing book on a fascinating encounter between America's working classes and imported British evangelicalism. (Jon Butler, Yale University) Taiz's history of the Salvation Army should be mandatory reading for all those politicians who call for faith communities to become more involved in charity. (Colleen McDannell, University of Utah) Taiz has crafted a compelling story about evangelism and urban relief in America, and she tells it in remarkably crisp prose. Armchair Army-ites and scholars alike will enjoy this book. ( Publishers Weekly )

An engrossing book on a fascinating encounter between America's working classes and imported British evangelicalism. (Jon Butler, Yale University) Taiz has crafted a compelling story about evangelism and urban relief in America, and she tells it in remarkably crisp prose. Armchair Army-ites and scholars alike will enjoy this book. ( Publishers Weekly ) Taiz's history of the Salvation Army should be mandatory reading for all those politicians who call for faith communities to become more involved in charity. (Colleen McDannell, University of Utah)

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Lillian Taiz is associate professor of history at California State University, Los Angeles.

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