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How Billy Graham Mainstreamed Evangelicals

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Movie-star handsome and spellbinding in the pulpit, Billy Graham was the first preacher to take evangelicalism from the fringes of Protestantism to America’s living rooms.

Frances Fitzgerald
Frances Fitzgerald
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Frances Fitzgerald

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