https://www.greenvilleonline.com/story/ ... 363018002/Marshall Frady asked Billy Graham in Montreat NC circa 1976 if he saw parallels to Melville's Billy Budd in his experience with Nixon. Frady FU 63 like Adams in the piece above a son of Baptist clergy writes in a Parable of American Righteousness, Graham couldn't quite get his head around the passage read to him and dismissed Nixon's Watergate imbroglio to bad sleeping pills.
Doug Cumming's father Joe was head of Newsweek Atlanta bureau in the mid 60s and hired Frady. The family was lifelong friends of Marshall. About Frady's 79 bio of Billy Gee, a Parable of American Righteousness Cumming texted me yesterday:
Quoting Doug: American Innocence, Frady said quoting an Egyptian he met in the Mideast is deadly in effect. Frady's take on Graham as Billy Budd tried to connect those dots. An ambitious literary project!
So my friend John Adams, one of Furman's finest has his take on Graham, and Frady, one of Furman's greatest has 500 pages on him. I read the last 50 pages of Frady on Graham again last night and they are riveting and challenging. I commend them to Dr. Adams.
Doug Cumming an active Episcopalian now teaches at Washington and Lee in journalism and has a blog. I imagine he will blog about Graham soon. WLU.edu