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Notes

[1]

Epigraph: Sinclair Lewis, Elmer Gantry (New York: Dell Publishing, 1954), p. 424. Ibid., p. 232.

[2]

Ibid., p. 5.

[3]

Ibid., p. 447.

[4]

"Heaven Can Wait," Newsweek, June 8, 1987, p. 58.

[5]

Tom Shales, "The `Nightline' Coup," Washington Post, May 29, 1987.

[6]

Cited in Harry F. Waters, "A Nerd's Sweet Revenge," Newsweek, April 13, 1987, p. 70.

[[7]]

Jean Seligmann, "The Inimitable Tammy Faye," Newsweek, June 8, 1987, p. 69.

[7]

Cited in Gordon Witkin and Jeannye Thornton, "Stones Fly in the TV Temple," U.S. News and World Report, June 8, 1987.

[8]

Transcript, Jim Bakker's statement of March 19, 1987. Charlotte Observer, March 20, 1987.

[9]

Cited in Megan Rosenfeld, "Bakker Says His Ministry is at an End," Washington Post, May 2, 1987.

[[11]]

Ibid.

[10]

Art Harris and Michael Isikoff "The Bakkers' Tumultuous Return," Washington Post, June 12, 1987.

[11]

Transcript of ABC's "Nightline," May 28, 1987.

[12]

"Statements from Bakkers," USA Today, April 27, 1987.

[13]

Ted Mellnik, "Bakker, Dortch Dismissed," Charlotte Observer, May 5, 1987.

[14]

Michael Isikoff and Art Harris, "Old PTL Board Reportedly Took Tens of Thousands in Payments," Washington Post, June 5, 1987.

[[17]]

Michael Isikoff and Art Harris, "$120,000 for PTL's Washington 'Liaison,'" Washington Post, May 13, 1987.

[15]

Ibid.

[16]

Art Harris, "PTL's Books Termed `A Mess,'" Washington Post, April 30, 1987.

[17]

Ibid.

[18]

Ibid.

[19]

Jeffrey A. Frank and Lloyd Grove, "The Raging Battles Of the Evangelicals," Washington Post, March 25, 1987.

[20]

Associated Press, "Swaggart Calls Bakker `Cancer' of Christ," The Daily Progress (Charlottesville, Virginia), March 25, 1987.

[21]

David R. Gergen, "On Christian Understanding," U.S. News dr World Report, April 6, 1987.

[22]

Dale Crowley, Jr., Radio Station WFAX, Washington, DC, May 16, 1987. Reprinted in The Christian News, May 25, 1987.

[23]

Art Harris and Michael Isikoff "PTL Probe Widens," Washington Post, June 2, 1987.

[24]

Russell Chandler, "Bakker Scandal Damages Standing of TV Preachers," Los Angeles Times, March 31, 1987.

[25]

Adam Clymer, "Survey Finds Many Skeptics Among Evangelists' Viewers," New York Times, March 31, 1987.

[26]

Jack Kelley, "Roberts, Bakker in Disfavor," USA Today, April 1, 1987.

[27]

"470 Laid Off at Robertson's TV Ministry," Washington Post, June 6, 1987.

[28]

Chandler, op. cit.

[29]

Kelley, op. cit.

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