Smile pretty and say Jesus : the last great days of PTL

Hunter James captures for us the internal world of the best-known of the electronic churches. The kingdom of PAL dissolved in the corruption of its founder, but that kingdom has represented the hopes of many true believers who turned to PAL because American society was not offering what they needed. In 1987, the story broke that Jim Bakker, televangelist and leader of PTL, had fornicated with a church secretary and then tried to pay her off. Hunter James, a journalist, covered the story from the beginning. This is his account of the struggle for control of the PTL's $172 million enterprise. Interesting book on the PTL and Jim Bakker