{"product_id":"saints-and-sinners-isbn-9780679761631","title":"Saints and Sinners","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Looming Tower\u003c\/i\u003e comes a fascinating book about religion in America, about the passions, triumphs, and failures of the life of faith, revealing stories of grace and despair, sexual scandal and attempted murder.  •  \"Insightful...vivid...beautifully rendered stories.\" —\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eLawrence Wright's \u003ci\u003eSaints and Sinners\u003c\/i\u003e are Jimmy Swaggart, who preached a hellfire gospel with rock 'n' roll abandon before he was caught with a, prostitute in a seedy motel; Anton LaVey, the kitsch-loving, gleefully fraudulent founder of the First Church of Satan; Madalyn Murray O'Hair, whose litigious atheism sometimes resembled a brand of faith; Matthew Fox, the Dominican priest who has aroused the fury of the Vatican for dismissing the doctrine of original sin and denouncing the church as a dysfunctional family; Walker Railey, the rising star of Dallas's Methodist church, who, at the pinnacle of his success, was suspected of attempting to murder his wife; and Will Campbell, the eccentric liberal Southern Baptist preacher whose challenges to established ways of thinking have made him a legend in his own time.\"A serenely passionate chronicle of the cobbled byways of the human spirit.\" —\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Trenchant, fair-minded, gracefully written....Wright brings his subjects into sharp focus with plenty of perceptive details.\" —\u003ci\u003eCleveland Plain Dealer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"A very American struggle....[Wright] memorably articulates his battle...between doubt and belief.\" —\u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"An entertaining, and insightful account...vivid...beautifully rendered stories.\" —\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003eLAWRENCE WRIGHT is a staff writer for \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker, \u003c\/i\u003ea playwright, and a screenwriter. He is the best-selling author of the novel, \u003ci\u003eThe End of October, \u003c\/i\u003eand ten books of nonfiction, including \u003ci\u003eGoing Clear, God Save Texas,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Looming Tower,\u003c\/i\u003e winner of the Pulitzer Prize. He and his wife are longtime residents of Austin, Texas.","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301864100069,"sku":"NP9780679761631","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780679761631.jpg?v=1767736052","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/saints-and-sinners-isbn-9780679761631","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}