| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 96.2

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Book Review

Francis Schaeffer and the Shaping of Evangelical America. By Barry Hankins. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2008. xvi, 272 pp. Paper, $20.00, ISBN 978-0-8028-6389-8.)

With other biographies of the late Francis Schaeffer functioning more as hagiographies, the historian Barry Hankins skillfully places the life and work of this extraordinarily complex figure in the historical and cultural contexts in which he lived. Was the "real" Schaeffer the leader of the open-minded conversations at L'Abri, the Schaeffers' retreat in Switzerland for young, searching evangelicals (a hippie, as his son, Frank, has described him), or the fundamentalist of the 1950s, or the religious Right leader of the 1980s? Hankins assembles a coherent picture in which we see these three characters and much more.

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