This is a useful collection of essays on the foremost evangelist of his age whose career offers an important lens through with to view America's own pilgrimage in the post-World War II era. The authors are Evangelical insiders, and while they are not uncritical of the man, those in search of tough-minded assessments will have to look elsewhere. The volume is best considered as a companion to co-editor Grant Wacker's magisterial America's pastor: Billy Graham and the shaping of a nation, filling in some gaps and providing sustained attention to aspects of the Graham story that might otherwise be overlooked. For example, Andrew Finstuen's essay on Graham's mission to universities and William Martin's overview of his international crusades highlight the importance of religion to the American project at home and abroad during the early post-war period. Darren Dochuck's fine-grained account of Houston as a site of some of Graham's most focused activity provides important insight into the shift of the locus of Evangelicalism to the Sunbelt in the latter part of the twentieth century. Anne Blue Wills's thoughtful essay on Ruth Bell Graham – Mrs Billy – and Steven P. Miller's account of journalist Marshall Frady's struggle to capture Graham in a biography conjure with the opacity of two figures whose success depended very much on carefully constructed images. Overall, the volume does not substantially change the received trajectory of the crusading Cold War preacher who, after picking his way through partisan politics and the civil rights revolution with fair success, emerged as a progressive internationalist and opponent of nuclear proliferation in his later years. But this whiggish interpretation of Graham's life seems out of place in the era of Trump, when a much darker Evangelicalism, symbolised by his culture warrior son Franklin, is in the saddle. The question for the next iteration of Graham scholarship is why the Galahad who began by leading post-war Evangelicalism away from angry fundamentalism failed at the height of his prestige to take a public stand against the alliance between the religious right and the Republican Party that has done so much to poison American democracy, and weaken American religion.