{"product_id":"9780679761631","title":"Saints and Sinners: Walker Railey, Jimmy Swaggart, Madalyn Murray O'Hair, Anton LaVey, Will Campbell, Matthew Fox","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.","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42468826218557,"sku":"9780679761631","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9780679761631_p0.jpg?v=1771591412","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.mom\/products\/9780679761631","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}