| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.3

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Book Review

Aimee Semple McPherson and the Resurrection of Christian America. By Matthew Avery Sutton. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007. 351 pp. $26.95, ISBN 978-0-674-02531-8).

Aimee Semple McPherson was, in the words of Matthew Avery Sutton, "one of the most famous American personalities of the interwar years," due to her "dazzling religious theatrics and a penchant for publicity" (p. 3). She is an obvious candidate for historical exploration, and Sutton, an assistant professor of history at Oakland University, sets out to prove that McPherson "brought conservative Protestantism back from the margins to the mainstream of American culture" (p. 4). That McPherson achieved her notoriety and reinvigorated American Protestantism from her headquarters in Hollywood only added to her mystique. She came to epitomize the dichotomy of traditional notions of femininity and the so-called new woman. Her fascinating story has implications for gender studies, religious studies, and social history.

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