Top Highlights

• Traditionally in American culture, members of the clergy have been among the most trusted people in the nation, while politicians have been the least trusted.
• what happens when these two classes collide and come in the form of one person?
• each of the world’s major religions has its own identity, culture and even language, and it is often very hard for those outside that culture to understand what a member of the group means by what he is saying. This leaves the door open for misunderstanding and hostility,
• He was a highly political Catholic who hated the first Catholic presidential candidate in American history.
• It would have been impossible for well known televangelists and religious figures like Jerry Falwell and Billy Graham to rise to national prominence without Coughlin setting the precedents decades earlier.