Introduction -- The dairyman's son -- No angel -- A bespectacled messenger -- The old has gone, the new has come -- Rose-colored glasses -- God's not deaf -- New horizons -- God speaks, on the eighteenth hole -- Ready to roar -- Knees down! Chin up! -- The twenty-one-year-old freshman -- Saved by a bell -- A marriage made in heaven -- It takes a village -- London fog -- Evangelism races, education plods -- Inexperienced, but enthusiastic -- Two evangelists, two crises of faith -- Kissed by William Randolph Hearst -- Cowboys, heroes, and mobsters -- King of all media -- Far east man -- Yankee spellbinder -- Shaking hands with Mr. History -- Gabriel in a gabardine suit -- JFK -- The decade that took down a president -- A man I never knew -- Revival in a suitcase -- The son also rises -- California Christians -- From Russia with love -- Transitions -- Lion in winter -- Afterword.