Sister Aimee

The true story of America’s first superstar evangelist that “f ills a significant gap in the history of revivalism” ( The New York Times Book Review ).   Once she answered the divine calling, Aimee Semple McPherson rose fast from unfulfilled housewife in Rhode Island to “miracle woman”—the most enigmatic, pioneering, media-savvy Christian evangelist in the country. She preached up and down the United States, traveling in a 1912 Packard with her mother and her children—and without a man to f