Article: After the legend. (Franklin Graham succeeds his father, evangelist Billy Graham) (includes related article)

Does Franklin Graham have the stuff to succeed America's preacher?

There was a time when Franklin Graham dreaded the inevitable comparisons to his father, evangelist Billy Graham. Growing up in the South as a typically mischievous P.K. ("preacher's kid"), he often found himself under the disapproving glare of church people who discerned far too little of the father in the son. Expectations were high for the eldest son and namesake of "America's Preacher." But for William Franklin Graham III, the comparisons were daunting, and as a teenager he rebelled. "Just because my father was Billy Graham," says Franklin, 40, "I wasn't going to live the life everybody expected ...

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