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| Just As I Am: The Autobiography of Billy Graham | 
 enlarge | Author: Billy Graham
Publisher: HarperOne
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  54 reviews
Sales Rank: 109555
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 760
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.9
Dimensions (in): 9.6 x 6.5 x 1.9
ISBN: 0060633875
Dewey Decimal Number: 269.2092
UPC: 099455028509
EAN: 9780060633875
ASIN: 0060633875
Publication Date: May 20, 1997
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Every year a Billy Graham crusade comes to a stadium or a television station near you, the message unchangingly passionate, though the messenger is grayer than he once was. The Reverend Billy Graham is more than just another television evangelist; he is as much a part of this country's collective consciousness as F.D.R. or the Vietnam War. Whether you subscribe to Graham's brand of ecumenical evangelism or not, Just As I Am reveals the man behind the crusade to be forthright, deeply religious, and driven to spread the Word at all costs, even his relationships with his family. Graham is characteristically honest about his failings as a husband and father, admitting that he didn't recognize his own children at a family gathering. In Just As I Am Graham discusses the beginnings of his career, his struggle to subsume intellect to faith, and, of course, the many famous--and infamous--people he has met over the years, everyone from the Shah of Iran to the Queen Mother to mobster Mickey Cohen. Graham's ministry has extended his influence to many quarters of the world, a fact that should make his autobiography interesting reading for believers and non-believers alike.
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In this account of his life, Billy Graham shares how he came from ordinary beginnings to have an extraordinary life of prestige and influence - all derived from his unshakable belief in Christ.
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 He Communicates With Others And With You December 2, 2008
I particularly like the part where the Rev. Graham recalls his friendship with Mickey Cohen. He had something to do with the JFK assassination plot. It's nice to hear about these two men communicating with each other now that Mr. Cohen has been gone for more than 30 years. I recommend wholeheartedly that you buy this book !!
mea culpa October 26, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I was sorry to be reminded, on page 787 of this long and often interesting autobiography, that my famed arch-rival, the Rev. Billy Graham, has retired from the ministry, with full pay. Having helped so many for so long to be forgiven for so much, and to obtain for themselves so great a promised reward in Heaven, Dr. Graham has said that he will soon be called home to meet his Maker.
(Billy, piece of advice: Don't go. I've already met your Maker and He's not worth the trip.)
I've known quite a few evangelists in my day. Billy Graham was the best of the lot, both as a preacher and as a human being, Lord, how I loved to hear Billy in his heyday, years ago, before he became a billionaire. How he thundered out the gospel in those days, to the lost sheep of the world! Come the Final Judgment, thousands of forgiven ne'er-do-wells will settle forever in Heaven, a gated community, in private mansions on five-acre lots, along boulevards of transparent gold, with Crystal River frontage out back. They'll have the Rev. Billy Graham to thank for the everlasting real estate. And if the projected housing shortage never materializes down there in my own maximum-security neighbourhood, well, I guess we can thank Billy for that, too.
The Rev. Jerry Falwell has explained to his television audience, loud and often, that the "Billy Graham is the chief servant of Satan in America." Don't take that complaint too literally. Rival evangelists ever since saints Peter and Paul have engaged in Jerry's brand of gentle teasing. Nor would I call Jerry Falwell or Billy Graham my "servants." I would just call them valued allies in my Coalition of the Willing. The exact truth is that Billy never worked for me. I actually owe more to Jerry, whose TV show, The 700 Club, has done me a world of good.
It is true, however, that I used to be one of Billy's biggest fans. I actually attended several of his Greater World Evangelistic Crusades over the years; and I found them all quite entertaining, spiritually speaking. It wasn't just me: back in the 1950s, everyone on the planet wanted to see Billy! hear Billy! talk Billy! By my own lowball estimate there were some 2.4 million women in the U.K. alone who wanted to DO Billy! (but he was not that kind of evangelist).
Most of you won't remember the final meeting of the 1954 Greater London Billy Graham Evangelistic Crusade; but I do, I was there. England, in those days, was still a Christian nation and this was the single largest Christian gathering in British history, dwarfing the previous record-setting event, the domestic crusades of 1264-1290 CE, when tens of thousands of English Christians united as one man to kill English Jews, or drive them into the sea.
So to Wembley Stadium they came, 25 May 1954, from every white Anglican-Saxon Protestant corner of Britain. Winston Churchill said that he and Marilyn Monroe, combined, could not draw a big enough crowd to fill Wembley Stadium (Graham, p. 253); but Billy and the Lord were able to do it. And they DID do it.
What a day! What a night! Billy Graham preached the gospel that night, in a cold, soaking rain, to 120,000 Brits at Wembley, and to a spill-over crowd of 65,000--all 185,000 of whom came voluntarily, most of whom would not have paid tuppence to see the Archbishop of Canterbury on the sunniest day of the year. But at Billy's invitation, they came, they saw, they heard, they believed. And they got drenched to their knickers.
The good Lord supplied the guest speaker from America. I supplied the weather.
Weirdly, Billy doesn't seem to blame me for that 1954 tempest. But I sure get blamed for everything else. At a Crusade in Altoona, a black woman in the all-volunteer choir kept shouting "HALLELUJAH!" and "PRAISE JESUS!", right in the middle of Billy's sermons. Bouncers evicted her, "but she kept coming back. We could not help but sense that Satan was on the attack" (p. 134).
--But I had nothing to do with it! In fact, I was in Kathmandu that week!
In the course of this book I get blamed for Billy's travel glitches (p. 207), kidney stone (244), a satirical newspaper cartoon (312), a Hippie demonstration ("400 Satan-worshippers," p. 370), and I even get blamed for "all [Billy's] sins going all the way back to childhood" (742). Is that fair?
But hey, I forgive the man. I'm just glad he didn't blame me for those 1972 Nixon tapes, released in 2002, in which Billy flames the Jews for their "stranglehold" on the nation, a monopoly that "has got to be broken or the country's going down the drain!"
"Oh, boy," said Nixon. "I can't ever say that, but I believe it!"
"No, but if you get elected a second time, then we might be able to DO something," replied Billy--and he didn't just mean let's bomb Cambodia, or let's scrap the U.S. Constitution. He meant, In your second term, Dick, let's break the Jewish chokehold, or else, swoosh! this great nation is going right down the toilet!
But then Nixon got impeached, and Billy had do work instead with President Jerry Ford, who thought the Jews were okay. So there went that plan.
What Billy hated the most, he said, was having to play the hypocrite with Jews who "swarm around" him like insects, "and are friendly" to him. Billy hated that! He confided to Nixon, "They don't know how I really feel about what they're doing to this country!"
In the 798 pages of _Just As I Am_, Billy neglects to mention those Jew-bashing tapes he made with Richard Nixon--and I'm glad for the omission: because I know whom he would blame for the embarrassing fact that the tapes were never erased...
Yours truly,
--L
A Very Inspirational story April 4, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I really enjoyed this autobiography by Billy Graham. It was a very pleasant read. In this autobiography, Graham shared his life struggles and victories. He tells of his childhood experiences on the farm, and how he grew up in a christian home without atually accepting it. He then explained how his life was changed once he dedicated his life to Christ. As the book continues, the reader discovers Graham's world-wide experiences, and how he helped to bring millions to the Lord.
Although the book was enjoyable overall, some parts of the book seemed a little drawn out and uneccesary. Some events seemed to be a little too insignificant to include in the book. He could have also opened up a little bit, and shared more of his personal feelings. Since it is an autobiography, Graham could have personalized the events a little bit more. But despite its flaws, this book was very inspirational, and I recommend it to all who are interested in learning more about this great christian icon.
 Life of the greatest evangelist since St. Paul March 20, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Unless Billy did a fantastic job in hiding all of the difficult and trying times of his life (as I suspect in the case of his troubled relationship with his son Franklin), WHAT A LIFE this man had!!! Who would not want to have what he had: travels; meetings with the rich, the famous, the wise; success; financial stability; a loving wife; great kids; and most of all, the honor and privilege to lead millions to Christ. Can you imagine the party they'll throw in heaven when he gets there? However, the book was very mediocre in my view. Very seldom the author opened his heart and expressed his true feelings...Lots of anecdotes, details, insignificant (to the reader) stuff; it was not a total waste of time, because you always get the feeling that this man loves his Lord and truly wants to serve Him. Not much to say against that...I just wish he could have made deeper remarks about people and events in general.
Very well purchase January 9, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
i'm very excited with this purchase. I received the product in very well condition and in good time.
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