Brave Ulysses Books
PO Box 1877
Asheville, NC 289802
www.Braveulysses.com
Reviewed by Michael O’McCarthy, The L. A. Free Press, November 2007
“Oh White God From Heaven, welcome to our shores and home…”
Thus we are told Columbus and mates were greeted upon landing by the various and unsuspecting peoples who lived and thrived there.
Thus, was the first evangelical named. Thus, he promptly began to fashion the means of the genocide to come. This chronicle of the exploitation and subversion of the human spirit by the Christian men of the cloth inflicted its torturous, hypocrisy upon the misnamed America and the world for the last 600 years.
Cecil Bothwell’s spare and well documented, unauthorized biography of William Franklin Graham, The Prince of War, captures Graham’s rise from his familys anti-Semitic, quick dealing legacy in the south of Charlotte, North Carolina to become the Crown Prince of Protestantism. His position as Christian patron has been to the masses and Presidents alike; to the post-colonial destitute of the 3rd world; reaping both the privileges and patronage of the Oval Office. Billy Graham is friends and advisers to Senators, Generals, right wing businessmen, yellow journalisms giants and Commanders in Chief. Perhaps no other preacher broke through the barrier of church and state as did Graham, all too often in service to what President Dwight Eisenhower, one of his fondest worshipers, would come to call, the military industrial complex.
The truth is: Billy Graham never saw an American war he did not love!
Bothwell’s is not an academic treatise. What Bothwell’s book does is to tear away the chiseled-chin, white matinee idol glamorous mask of Graham and reveal a man who catered to the worst fears of America. From that of the black race seeking its freedom and its due to the much touted, little effective thirst of Communism for the soul of white folks and their servants of color at home and abroad.