by Billy Graham
SECTION 1
Associated press: On the White House lawn, 1950.
BGEA, Russ Busby: With President Kim Il Sung; Graham family, 1962.
Author’s collection: As an infant with mother; with father and sister, 1925; birthplace; in the goat cart; Sunday school graduation; Graham farm milking barn; Morrow and Frank Graham; Graham family in Florida, 1936; at Florida Bible Institute; with Ruth Bell; wedding day; young pastor and wife.
Billy Graham Archives: Preaching, 1939; Youth for Christ rally; planning trip to Europe; with T.W. Wilson.
Author’s collection: Picnicking near Montreat.
June Glenn, Jr.: Family photo, 1958.
Billy Graham Archives: Leaving on a trip; playing baseball; preaching in Harlem; leaving Number 10 Downing Street; the Team, 1953; radio broadcast from Atlanta, Georgia.
BGEA, Russ Busby: With sons Ned and Franklin; with associate evangelists; with Dr. L. Nelson Bell; at the Canadian National Exhibition.
Houston Press: With family and dog.
Dick Whittington: Los Angeles campaign.
New York Times: Times Square gathering.
London Daily Mirror: With columnist “Cassandra.”
Ray Provost: Preparing to preach to American troops in Korea.
Seth Muse: With President and Mrs. Eisenhower.
Bruce Sifford Studio: Monitoring the broadcast.
SECTION 2
BGEA, Russ Busby: Final Chicago Crusade meeting; at the Kremlin with Boris Ponomarev; meeting with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher; speaking in Auschwitz; at Harvard University; in Andhra Pradesh, India; in Belfast, Northern Ireland; in Oakland, California; evangelistic service in Hungary; crusade in Seoul, Korea; in Tallinn, Estonia; in Timisoara, Romania; with Premier Li Peng; welcome by Japanese Christians; visiting Ruth’s childhood home in China; at the Great Wall of China.
Wide World Photos: With President John F. Kennedy; with Prime Minister Indira Gandhi; with Cardinal Richard J. Cushing.
Roy Gustafson: With Prime Minister Golda Meir.
Chicago Tribune: With Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
U.S. Air Force: Preaching to troops in Vietnam.
Tom McMahan: Preaching to Masai tribesmen.
Earl Davidson: Gathering in Central Park.
SECTION 3
BGEA, Russ Busby: Portrait of Billy Graham; inauguration of President Richard M. Nixon; with President Ronald Reagan; golfing with President Gerald Ford; with President Jimmy Carter; with Queen Elizabeth II; interviewed by John F. Kennedy, Jr.; with Muhammad Ali; welcomed by President Boris Yeltsin; visiting President Mikhail Gorbachev; fiftieth wedding anniversary; speaking at the U.S. Capitol; relaxing at home.
The White House: With Grady Wilson and President Lyndon Johnson; with President and Mrs. Bush; with President Bill Clinton.
L’OSSERVATORE ROMANO: With Pope John Paul II.
BGEA, Russ Busby: Visiting with President Jiang Zemin of the People’s Republic of China, 1997; meeting in Boston with Christian and Muslim leaders from Iraq, 1999; speaking in Amsterdam via satellite to twelve thousand evangelists and church leaders from over two hundred and ten countries, 2000; overflow crowds watched the New York Crusade meeting via large-screen projection in Flushing Meadows, New York, 2005; a nation in mourning: speaking on the National Day of Prayer and Remembrance in the Washington National Cathedral, 2001; President and Mrs. George W. Bush, along with former presidents and other national leaders, joined in the National Day of Prayer and Remembrance, 2001.
The White House: President and Mrs. George W. Bush welcome us to the White House to celebrate my eighty-third birthday, 2001.
BGEA, Russ Busby: Still a team after more than six decades: George Beverly Shea and I welcome each other to our final crusade, New York, 2005; Ambassador Sir Christopher Meyer, acting on behalf of Her Majesty the Queen, confers on me the Honorary Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Washington, D.C., 2001; fifty-five years after our 1949 Los Angeles meetings, over three hundred thousand people gathered during four days of meetings in Pasadena’s Rose Bowl, 2004; architect’s drawing of the new Billy Graham Library in Charlotte, N.C.
Acclaim for Just As I Am
“Although the high political anecdotes keep one amused throughout this tome, and the story of Graham’s life itself is so remarkable, underlying regret propels the book with a sadness that is strangely haunting.”
—New York Times Book Review
“A disarmingly honest biography in which Graham stretches out and spins yarn after yarn about growing up in North Carolina just after World War I, barnstorming the country as a red-hot revivalist, touring the world as a senior ambassador for Christianity, and hobnobbing with kings, queens, presidents, and the pope along the way.”
—Chicago Tribune
“The reader gets a good glimpse of Graham’s private life. . . . [He] is plain-spoken and candid.”
—USA Today
“An admirable life. . . . For nearly five decades, Graham has, in his crusades around the globe, given the world what it has often believed to be a glimpse of America. . . . Graham is characteristically American. But in his openness, his capacity for growth, his artlessness and simple geniality, he has also shown the world our best self.”
—Los Angeles Times
“One of the most remarkable evangelistic careers in American religious history . . . the ultimate insider’s perspective on the mix of religion and White House politics.”
—St. Paul Pioneer Press
“What readers may find most striking about the autobiography is not the oft-told tales of public events, but the glimpses into the private life of the man, who has consistently over the past four decades, made the list of America’s ten most admired men.”
—Newport News (Rhode Island)
“As he introduces readers to his children and even to the family dogs, he tells of his struggles for balance between the demands of a God-called ministry and the needs of a God-given family.”
—Tampa Tribune & Times (Florida)
“For the first time, Dr. Graham tells his life story. . . . In Just As I Am , Graham looks back at it all with down-to-earth warmth and color.”
—Decatur Daily (Alabama)
“The time has come for summing up one of the most remarkable evangelistic careers in American religious history.”
—Brockton Enterprise (Massachusetts)
“Offers personal insights into how one of the nation’s most respected men of God had to struggle through family tensions.”
—Washington Record-Herald (Ohio)
“[Graham] now looks back on an incredible lifetime of personal relationships, whirlwind activity, ministry, leadership, and influence. In a warm, unassuming voice, he shares the stories of his beginnings in the church and the overwhelming success he has achieved in spreading the Gospel.”
—Staunton News Leader (Virginia)
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