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Epigraph: Pat Robertson, "The 700 Club," 1979, cited in Jeffrey K. Hadden and Charles E. Swann, Prime Time Preachers: The Rising Power of Televangelism (Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1981). Undated direct-mail fund-raising letter from the Democratic National Committee and signed by Paul G. Kirk, Jr.

Paul Weyrich, "Conservatism's Future: Pat Robertson," Conservative Digest, August/September 1985. Unpaginated offprint.

Tom Wicker, "Bet-a-Million Bush," New York Times, August 8, 1986.

Hugh McDiarmid, "Bush Foes Win Fight, But War's Not Over," Detroit Free Press, February 22, 1987.

Hugh McDiarmid, "Dust Hasn't Settled on GOP Brawling," Detroit Free Press, April 26, 1987.

George Weeks, "Robertson's Edge Upsets GOP Leaders," Detroit News, April 26, 1987.

Results of the A. C. Nielsen special audience study were reported by CBN in David W. Clark and Paul H. Virts, "Religious Television Audience: A New Development in Measuring Audience Size." Unpublished paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Savannah, GA, October 25, 1985.

Pat Robertson (with Bob Slosser), The Secret Kingdom (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 1982), pp. 13-14.

Ibid., p. 196.

Ibid.

"The 700 Club," September 27, 1985.

"The 700 Club," June 11, 1986.

"Meet the Press," December 15, 1985.

Jim Castelli, "Pat Robertson: Extremist." Unpublished manuscript (Washington, DC: People for the American Way, August 1986), p. 26.

William Safire, "The Poli-preachers," New York Times, June 9, 1986.

From a broadcast of' The 700 Club," cited in Jeffrey K. Hadden and Charles E. Swann, Prime Time Preachers: The Rising Power of Televangelism (Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1981), p. 161.

Senator John Warner, cited in a brochure distributed by American Coalition for Traditional Values, 1986.

R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., "Rev. Pat Robertson: Neoliberal Pundits Frightened-They Think He's Got a Chance," Peoria Journal Star, June 15, 1986.