Swaggart - The Unauthorised Biography of an American Evangelist
Ann Seaman painstakingly records Jimmy Swaggart's rise from humble origins in rural Louisiana to a ministry that reached 500,000,000 people, and his public disgrace and its aftermath. Hers is a generous, sympathetic approach.
David Porter
Swaggart: The Unauthorised Biography of an American Evangelist
By Ann Rowe Seaman
Continuum. 438 pages. £16.99 (hardback)
ISBN 0 8264 1117 7