Description: "This ethnographic history presents the era's major radio evangelists and songwriters in the own words, drawing on their writings and recordings, as well as songbooks, liner notes and "song story" anthologies of the period"--
Brief description: Mark Ward Sr., is an associate professor of communication at the University of Houston-Victoria in Victoria, Texas and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Communication and Religion and executive council of the Religious Communication Association.
Review Quotes: "Ward's talent for storytelling makes the pioneers of evangelical radio come alive on the printed page. The Lord's Radio shines an important spotlight on an all-but-forgotten community of mid-century evangelical popular music artists, songwriters, and radio personalities. Their stories show how mass media built an evangelical popular culture that ultimately influenced national politics."--ARSC Journal.