Storming Heaven: The Lives and Turmoils of Minnie Kennedy and Aimee Semple McPherson

New York: Morrow, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good. First edition (no statement as is correct). Hardcover. Fine in very good dust jacket. 364 pp. with index, rdaing list. Illustrated with photographs. One of America's finest social historians of his day, Allan Nevins, finds a congenial subject in this first complete biography of the wild and wonderful evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson and her yeasty mother, Minnie Kennedy. Aimee was a rising evangelist in the tent circuit of the Atlantic seaboard when she, her mother her two young children set out by automobile for Los Angeles in 1918. Four years later, they opened the 5000-seat Angelus Temple that would Aimee's base of power until her death in 1944. McPherson discovered her own brand of dramatic, triumphant preaching, was renowned around the country, and established the Church of the Foursquare Gospel. But her vivid personal life--three marriages, family dissentions, church uproars, breakdowns, world tours, court battles---also electrified the public. Mother Minnie was also a headline maker with her blunt buisness efficency, independence, marriage at 60 to a wispy wayward deliquent (whom she referred to as "Whataman