| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 39.3

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Aimee Semple McPherson and the Resurrection of Christian America. By Matthew Avery Sutton. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007. 351 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $26.95.)

Aimee Semple McPherson was one of the most important figures in twentieth-century American religion, the founder of the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel, and a fixture in California politics and society. First gaining popularity as an itinerant evangelist who crisscrossed the United States in her "Gospel Car," McPherson eventually settled in Los Angeles, constructing the nation's first mega-church: Angelus Temple. From this base, McPherson reached millions of people through sermons, radio broadcasts, and print publications. In this new biographical study of McPherson, Matthew Avery Sutton focuses squarely on the evangelist's life in California, which lasted from the early 1920s until her death in 1944. Drawing extensively on contemporary newspaper and magazine articles, novels, films, archival sources, and interviews with the evangelist's daughter, Sutton argues that in her efforts to "re-Christianize" the United States, McPherson tapped into trends in American culture and brought her brand of conservative, Pentecostal, fundamentalist Christianity into mainstream American society.

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