http://sites.google.com/site/stevenpmillersite/I finally got my hands on this book after itchin for 16 months or so. Miller cuts to the chase on Billy Graham. I see Graham through a new lens now.
Tony Cartledge has written how Graham at times insinuated himself into SBC politics, and Randall Balmer has written about his caginess, especially in the Nixon/Kennedy contest of 1960. Miller explores it all, from Will Campbell to Marshall Frady, George W. Bush, Moyers/LBJ and back.
For sure all leaders of Covenant Movement should master the nuances of this book, including President Carter, Jimmy Allen, Bill Self and Mercer President Underwood.
Pardon the Hubris but all should be exploring this work asap.
It would seem somewhere along the way, Mark Noll, or somebody in the Wheaton Progressive Movement coulda gotten to Graham, especially his too cute by half endorsement of Charles Stanley in 84. Graham at many places showed signs of some maturity in his political adjustments, and this work gives him credit due him, but in regard the SBC, whose takeover implications are explicitly missing in this work, Graham never got past his sophomoric limits.
Still, this is a remarkable work, and Graham shines for the Kingdom in many places; but in regard the Southern Baptist Convention he remains a major disappointment.