Pat Robertson: A Life and Legacy

Pat Robertson: A Life and Legacy is the first sweeping overview of the vast international media, business, humanitarian, educational, political, legal, and religious empire created by one of the consummate ― and most controversial ― American visionaries of the twentieth century. / Based on thousands of documents from the files of the Christian Broadcasting Network and the private correspondence of Robertson himself, this meticulously researched book will become the definitive account of Pat Robertson’s life and legacy. Author David Edwin Harrell Jr. has conducted more than 100 hours of interviews with 75 people in seven countries ― including extensive interviews with the Robertson family. He brings these numerous resources ― covering everything from Robertson’s unique position of influence to his son’s drug addiction to the truth behind the caricature often painted of him ― together in one captivating biography.

 

David Edwin Harrell Jr. (1930–2021) was an American historian and the Daniel F. Breeden Eminent Scholar at Auburn University. He published several books on American religious history, including the two-volume Social History of the Disciples of Christ and such pioneering studies of the Pentecostal and charismatic movements as All Things Are Possible: The Healing and Charismatic Revivals in Modern America and Oral Roberts: An American Life. He also coedited a series entitled Religion and American Culture by the University of Alabama Press. A respected authority on American history, religion, and politics, Harrell appeared on such TV news programs as Good Morning America, Nightline, and CNN News, and he was quoted in Time, Newsweek, US News & World Report, The Economist, and The Nation.