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Hero of the Heartland: Billy Sunday and the Transformation of American Hardcover – Download: Adobe Reader, September 17, 2002

by Robert F. Martin (Author)

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"Robert F. Martin demonstrates nicely that, beneath all of Billy Sunday’s flamboyance, the orphan-turned-baseball player-turned-evangelist embodied the tensions of his age. Martin’s prodigious research has yielded a wealth of anecdotal material that adds flavor and spice to his keen analysis."
―Randall Balmer, author of Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory:
A Journey into the Evangelical Subculture in America

William Ashley "Billy" Sunday was the most popular and influential evangelist of his time. Between 1896 and 1935, the colorful Iowa-born evangelist toured first his native Midwest and then the nation, preaching in tent and tabernacle, espousing a simplistic but, for many, deeply satisfying interpretation of Christianity. Embodying the traditional values and attitudes of the heartland and at home in an increasingly diverse, urban, industrial America, Sunday won the hearts―and the pocketbooks―of millions of Americans.

Heartland is an interpretive biography that focuses on the ways in which the man and his career resonated with the hopes and fears of his contemporaries as they coped with the economic, social, and cultural changes around the start of the 20th century. Robert F. Martin shows how Sunday and his revivalism helped his followers bridge the gap between the traditional past and the progressive future, and made more comfortable the transition from the old order to the new.

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Print length

194 pages
Language

English
Publisher

Indiana University Press
Publication date

September 17, 2002
Dimensions

6.12 x 0.77 x 9.25 inches
ISBN-10

0253341299
ISBN-13

978-0253341297
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Billy Sunday, baseball player for the Chicago Whitestockings, "entrepreneurial evangelist," and the "personification of American manliness," was a phenomenal success in the early part of the 20th century and the object of both great public admiration and criticism. Martin (history, Univ. of Northern Iowa; Howard Kester and the Struggle for Social Justice in the South, 1904-1977) argues that while Sunday was very much a man of his day and nation, he also expounded tratiditional values that the public found comforting and compelling at a time of great economic, social, and demographic change. Beautifully written and based upon exhaustive research, this book is as much a study of America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries as it is a treatment of Sunday's life. Though a number of recent Sunday biographies exist, this concise scholarly study is one larger academic libraries will want to acquire even if they already own others such as Roger A. Bruns's Preacher: Billy Sunday and Big-Time American Evangelism.
Theresa R. McDevitt, Indiana Univ. of Pennsylvania Lib.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About the Author

Robert F. Martin is Professor of History at the University of Northern Iowa and author of Howard Kester and the Struggle for Social Justice in the South, 1904–77.

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Liz Weber

Robert F Martin's Billy Sunday book

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Robert (Bob) Martin is a friend of mine and you will love his book. We spent our childhood together. He is a brilliant professor of History at UNI. Give it a look see.

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Well liked by a baseball fan with a heart for the Lord. A great surprise for anyone who fits this profile.

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Marc A. Jolley

Excellent contextual study of Billy Sunday

Reviewed in the United States on December 4, 2002

Billy Sunday was a remarkable man of his times, and Martin makes that very clear in this well-written and well-researched book. Whether you are coming to Sunday for the first time or are a seasoned-student, you will want to buy this book and read it, then read it again.
It is not a straightforward biography, but it provides much of the life of Sunday in the context of American culture and society from the Civil War to the Great Depression. A must read.

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Robert

Not really a book

Reviewed in the United States on December 9, 2002

The author has taken what would have been a fine essay and tried to turn it into a short book. Unfortunately he has chosen endless repetition of the same facts and opinions rather than increased deapth and insight to do so.

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Eric M. Bradley

Short annotation of Robert Martin's biography on Billy Sunday

Reviewed in the United States on September 24, 2008

A critical treatment of Sunday`s life, examining how the work of the evangelist was a reflection of the American culture shift from a rural agricultural existence to an urban industrial one. While covering Sunday`s life and baseball and evangelistic careers, two later chapters are devoted to masculine Christianity and Progressive Era religion.

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