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From: Journal of Church and State
Date: 19980101
Author:Hart, D.G.

By Barry Hankins. Lexington, Ky. The University Press of Kentucky, 1996. 220 pp. $24.95.

In 1976, C. Allyn Russell wrote of J. Frank Norris that the controversial Southern Baptist fundamentalist minister was "colorful but irascible," "a one-man show." Barry Hankins's biography of Norris registers little dissent from this assessment. "An extremely complex individual," Hankins concludes, Norris was a bundle of contradictions. The Baptist preacher could do anything for his cause "no matter how evil," while also caring deeply about the physical and spiritual needs of his church ...

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