HOUSE OF DEATH AND GATE OF HELL. AN EXPOSURE OF ROME'S CONVENT PRISON SYSTEM, WITH PHOTOGRAPHS AND TESTIMONIALS OF CONVICTS MADE FREE THROUGH THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST

Published by Protestant Book House, Toledo, OH, 1928

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Octavo, 9 in. x 6 in., pp. 112, [1]. Illustrated with full-page photographs. Burgundy cloth boards with gilt title to front. Light shelfwear to spine ends and corners. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown. Spine and hinges tight. Louis Joseph King was an ardent anti-Catholic evangelist who was renowned for instigating and promoting anti-Catholic hatred and viiolence. He promoted the KKK throughout the 1920s. According to Backyard History: "His so-called sermons involved a dramatic speaking style, and frequent costume changes. He used props he claimed were torture devices used in convents. Having learned that sex sells, his sermons often verged into the full-blown pornographic. King had a sidekick, Helen Jackson who claimed to be an "escaped nun" from Montreal. She would warm up the crowd by delivering a speech called 'Convent Cruelties' to audience members who paid a whopping 50 cents before King went on as the headliner. When the American media fact-checked Helen Jackson, they discovered she was actually Helen Barnowski from Pennsylvania. She'd never been a nun, and in fact, had never so much as even visited Montreal. She had actually been a prostitute, which was where she met King." King ultimately turned his vitriol into a highly successful business. …

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Title
HOUSE OF DEATH AND GATE OF HELL. AN EXPOSURE OF ROME'S CONVENT PRISON SYSTEM, WITH PHOTOGRAPHS AND TESTIMONIALS OF CONVICTS MADE FREE THROUGH THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST
Author
King, L.J. (Louis Joseph)
Publisher
Protestant Book House, Toledo, OH
Publication year
1928
Condition
Very Good
Binding
Hardcover
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