**From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower comes a
fascinating book about religion in America, about the passions,
triumphs, and failures of the life of faith, revealing stories of grace
and despair, sexual scandal and attempted murder. -
"Insightful...vivid...beautifully rendered stories." --*Chicago
Tribune
*Lawrence Wright's Saints and Sinners are Jimmy Swaggart, who preached
a hellfire gospel with rock 'n' roll abandon before he was caught with
a, prostitute in a seedy motel; Anton LaVey, the kitsch-loving,
gleefully fraudulent founder of the First Church of Satan; Madalyn
Murray O'Hair, whose litigious atheism sometimes resembled a brand of
faith; Matthew Fox, the Dominican priest who has aroused the fury of the
Vatican for dismissing the doctrine of original sin and denouncing the
church as a dysfunctional family; Walker Railey, the rising star of
Dallas's Methodist church, who, at the pinnacle of his success, was
suspected of attempting to murder his wife; and Will Campbell, the
eccentric liberal Southern Baptist preacher whose challenges to
established ways of thinking have made him a legend in his own time.