Swaggart

This biography of Jimmy Swaggart relates his early years in poverty as a sharecropper's son. Born around the same time are his famous cousins, Jerry Lee Lewis and Mickey Gilley. This book also details the rise of Pentecostalism and its "evil twin" Rock and Roll. Jimmy Swaggart was one of the most popular video preachers in the world, until a moment of indiscretion in a New Orleans motel. This unauthorized biography looks at Swaggart's life, as well as discussing the religious and societal movements responsible, in part, for his rise and fall. Ann Rowe Seaman approaches her subject not with…