Forgiven: The Rise and Fall of Jim Baker and the PTL Ministry - Softcover

"FORGIVEN", New and Updated, by Charles E. Shepard, Winner of the 1988 Pulitzer Prize. · Charles E. Shepard's investigative reporting of television evangelist Jim Bakker and his Praise The Lord/People That Love ministry won for The Charlotte Observer the 1988 "gold medal" Pulitzer Prize for meritorious public service. This trade paperback edition includes new and updated material on the tial, sentencing, and imprisonment of Jim Bakker. · In "Forgiven", Charles Shepard analyses how Bakker won the allegiance of so many, as he details Bakker's early years and PTL's birth, blossoming, and headline-making decline. Truly a landmark work, Forgiven delves beneath the PTL scandal to illuminate the fascinating inner workings of a major TV ministry, the hazards of the strange alliance between television and church, and the power of television in our culture today. PRAISE FOR "Forgiven": · "A fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the greed, deceit and manipulation that littered the path to Bakker's downfall." --from The New York Times Book Review citation for "Notable Books of the Year" · "A skillful piece of writing...It is a ribald, repugnant and extremely sad tale. Shepard's telling of it is well worth reading." --Los Angeles Times Book Review · "A readable work that will have lasting value as a piece of journalism and a historical record." --New York Newsday · "Charles E. Shepard's full-bodied, nearly mesmerizing acvount of Jim and Tammy Bakker's rise and fall- and attempt to rise again...is both chilling and impossible to put down." --San Francisco Chronicle