Sister Aimee: The Life of Aimee Semple McPherson

Written by Daniel Mark Epstein

Narrated by Tom Parks

The true story of America's first superstar evangelist that "fills a significant gap in the history of revivalism" (The New York Times Book Review).

Once she answered the divine calling, Aimee Semple McPherson rose fast from unfulfilled housewife in Rhode Island to "miracle woman"-the most enigmatic, pioneering, media-savvy Christian evangelist in the country. She preached up and down the United States, traveling in a 1912 Packard with her mother and her children-and without a man to fix flat tires. Her ministry was rolled out in tents, concert halls, boxing rings, and speakeasies. She prayed for the healing of hundreds of thousands of people, founded the Foursquare Church, and built a Pentecostal temple in Los Angeles of Hollywood-epic dimensions (Charlie Chaplin advised her on sets). But this is not just a story of McPherson's cult of fame. It's also the story about its price: exhaustion, insomnia, nervous breakdowns, sexual scandals, loneliness, and the notorious public disgrace that nearly destroyed her.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
• Release date: Jul 14, 2020
• ISBN: 9781705229040

Daniel Mark Epstein

Daniel Mark Epstein (born October 25, 1948) is an American poet, dramatist, and biographer, best known for his biographies of Nat King Cole, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Bob Dylan and Abraham Lincoln, and his radio plays, Star of Wonder and The Two Menorahs which have become holiday mainstays on National Public Radio.