Article: Jim Bakker: Miscarriage of Justice?(Review)

Jim Bakker: Miscarriage of Justice? By James A. Albert. Chicago, Ill.: Open Court Publishing Co., 1998. 532 pp. np.

Jim Bakker's 1989 conviction on twenty-four counts of broadcast fraud, mail fraud, and conspiracy was viewed widely as the death blow to similar evangelical TV empires in the United States, particularly as Bakker's fellow televangelists Jimmy Swaggart, Pat Robertson, and Jerry Falwell were eventually drawn into the controversies surrounding the control and bankruptcy of Bakker's Christian theme park, Heritage USA. A national audience was treated over a period of months to revelations of adultery, hypocrisy, greed, hush money, and internecine ...

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