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Billy Sunday

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Noun1.Billy Sunday - United States evangelist (1862-1935)


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The ironic name 'Plainview' is given to a seemingly benevolent straight dealer who operates covertly, and the preacher's name inevitably evokes Billy Sunday, the most celebrated tub-thumping American evangelist of his day, a man in league with capitalism.
Anthony examines social purity, and Billy Sunday takes a swing at demon rum.
With Jefferson as his starting point, Prothero is off to the races: He moves quickly through the "feminized" Jesus of the nineteenth century to the muscular Jesus of the early twentieth preached by people like Billy Sunday.
 
 
 
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