LEADER 04904nam 22006975 450 001 9910779140503321 005 20190708092533.0 010 $a1-283-89645-1 010 $a0-8122-0614-2 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812206142 035 $a(CKB)2550000000104507 035 $a(OCoLC)802049499 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10576033 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000752523 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11417974 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000752523 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10788201 035 $a(PQKB)11569658 035 $a(DE-B1597)449447 035 $a(OCoLC)1013956419 035 $a(OCoLC)1029837325 035 $a(OCoLC)979741171 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812206142 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441593 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000104507 100 $a20190708d2011 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBilly Graham and the Rise of the Republican South /$fSteven P. Miller 210 1$aPhiladelphia : $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, $d[2011] 210 4$dİ2009 215 $a1 online resource (317 p.) 225 0 $aPolitics and Culture in Modern America 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8122-2179-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [221]-293) and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIntroduction. Billy Graham's New South -- $tChapter one. ''No Segregation at the Altar'' -- $tChapter two. Evangelical Universalism in the Post-Brown South -- $tChapter three. The Politics of Decency -- $tChapter four. ''Another Kind of March'' -- $tChapter five. Billy Graham's Southern Strategy -- $tChapter six. Crusading for the Sunbelt South -- $tChapter seven. ''Before the Water Gate'' -- $tEpilogue. Billy Graham and American Conservatism -- $tNotes -- $tArchival and manuscript sources -- $tIndex -- $tAcknowledgments 330 $aWhile spreading the gospel around the world through his signature crusades, internationally renowned evangelist Billy Graham maintained a visible and controversial presence in his native South, a region that underwent substantial political and economic change in the latter half of the twentieth century. In this period Graham was alternately a desegregating crusader in Alabama, Sunbelt booster in Atlanta, regional apologist in the national press, and southern strategist in the Nixon administration.Billy Graham and the Rise of the Republican South considers the critical but underappreciated role of the noted evangelist in the creation of the modern American South. The region experienced two significant related shifts away from its status as what observers and critics called the "Solid South": the end of legalized Jim Crow and the end of Democratic Party dominance. Author Steven P. Miller treats Graham as a serious actor and a powerful symbol in this transition-an evangelist first and foremost, but also a profoundly political figure. In his roles as the nation's most visible evangelist, adviser to political leaders, and a regional spokesperson, Graham influenced many of the developments that drove celebrants and detractors alike to place the South at the vanguard of political, religious, and cultural trends. He forged a path on which white southern moderates could retreat from Jim Crow, while his evangelical critique of white supremacy portended the emergence of "color blind" rhetoric within mainstream conservatism. Through his involvement in the Eisenhower and Nixon administrations, as well as his deep social ties in the South, the evangelist influenced the decades-long process of political realignment.Graham's public life sheds new light on recent southern history in all of its ambiguities, and his social and political ethics complicate conventional understandings of evangelical Christianity in postwar America. Miller's book seeks to reintroduce a familiar figure to the narrative of southern history and, in the process, examine the political and social transitions constitutive of the modern South. 410 0$aPolitics and culture in modern America. 606 $aCivil rights$zSouthern States$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aSouthern States$xRace relations$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aSouthern States$xSocial conditions$y20th century 607 $aSouthern States$xReligious life and customs 610 $aAmerican History. 610 $aAmerican Studies. 610 $aAutobiography. 610 $aBiography. 610 $aPolitical Science. 610 $aPublic Policy. 615 0$aCivil rights$xHistory 676 $a269/.2092 B 700 $aMiller$b Steven P., $01205252 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910779140503321 996 $aBilly Graham and the Rise of the Republican South$93757902 997 $aUNINA