Monday Book: A preacher, a prostitute and a very public downfall Swaggart: The Unauthorized Biography of an American Evangelist by Ann Rowe Seaman (Continuum, pounds 16.99) BORN THE son of late-blooming Pentecostal evangelists in Louisiana in 1935, Jimmy Swaggart spent his childhood playing preache...
Jimmy Swaggart, American televangelist and gospel music performer. His career included both radio and television ministries, and he was one of the most popular televangelists of the era. He was defrocked by the Assemblies of God in 1988 after a sex scand