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God in a Rolls Royce. The Rise of Father Divine, Madman, Menace, or Messiah.
God in a Rolls Royce. The Rise of Father Divine, Madman, Menace, or Messiah.
God in a Rolls Royce. The Rise of Father Divine, Madman, Menace, or Messiah.

God in a Rolls Royce. The Rise of Father Divine, Madman, Menace, or Messiah.

“Many will deny he is God, but none can deny that at least he has gone Moses one better”


First edition of this “classic debunker” of the religious cult leader Father Divine. “The Great Depression left large numbers of Negroes in Harlem and elsewhere without jobs or much hope, and little faith in the white man’s church. Father Divine was the most skillful of the ‘New Messengers’... Father Divine became the main attraction among Harlem cult leaders.” (DANB)


Description: God in a Rolls Royce. The Rise of Father Divine, Madman, Menace, or Messiah.

New York: Hillman-Curl, Inc., 1936. Frontispiece, xii, [2],15–272pp. + [5] plates. First Edition. Pictorial brown cloth, without jacket. Unobtrusive stain along fore-edge of upper cover; endpapers spotted; very good.

[3728264]

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