A Life With Purpose: The Story of the Man Behind The Purpose-Driven Life - Hardcover

9780425201749: A Life With Purpose: The Story of the Man Behind The Purpose-Driven Life
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A biography of the man called "America's most influential pastor" furnishes a personal, behind-the-scenes study of the life of Rick Warren, discussing what prompted him to begin preaching, his family life, his visionary mission, and his influential work, The Purpose-Driven Life, and its message. Original.

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George Mair is the author of numerous books, including nine celebrity biographies. His book House Broken: How I Remodeled My Home for Just Under Three Times the Original Bid was recently named "Book of the Week" by People magazine. The recipient of thirty-two writing awards, including the prestigious Columbia University Silver Scroll for Best Radio Writing in America, Mair has also served as a CBS broadcaster, a Los Angeles Times syndicated columnist, and a radio talk-show host.
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"It's not about you." That is the now-famous depersonalization that opens Rick Warren's self-help guide The Purpose-Driven Life. Unfortunately, they are apparently words that his biographer took to heart, because despite its promising subtitle, this portrait tells readers almost nothing about the man behind the bestseller. Mair spends most of the book superficially exploring the phenomenon of megachurches and introducing some of Warren's role models for ministry. What information he does give us about Warren's life is sparse and blandly hagiographic: the son of energetic, saintly California church planters, Warren appears to have realized his pastoral calling early on. Because he's depicted as both pious and entrepreneurial from childhood, readers don't get to see him grow or evolve as a leader. Moreover, the book says almost nothing about his family life—for example, Mair tells us that when Saddleback Church was founded, the Warrens had an infant daughter, but she's never named or even mentioned again—nor is the fact that the Warrens went on to have two more children. If these perfectly basic elements to include in a life story are missing, it goes without saying that Mair also reveals no conflict, no difficult struggles and no rough edges to Warren's personality that could make him a real person instead of the smiling, guitar-playing, Hawaiian shirt–wearing cardboard cutout depicted here. (Mar.)
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  • PublisherBerkley
  • Publication date2005
  • ISBN 10 0425201740
  • ISBN 13 9780425201749
  • BindingHardcover
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages211
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