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Title: dan irving
Review: I would label this book a "thesis" rather than a true "biography". In fact, there is little biographical-reading on the subject of AJ Tomlinson until we are well a third of the way into the book. The value of the book resides only the tremendous-significance of this man's role in the early Pentecostal-Movement, combined with the relative-scarcity of materials dealing with his life. However, the writing style is painfully-pedantic, and I read much too much of the author's theories-on-things than I bargain-for in a biography. The most glaring inadequacy is that the book gives the last twenty to thirty years of Mr. Tomlinson's life little more than a postscript, when these years were fraught with drama, controversy, and litigation. Upon closing the book, I wondered where I might go to read the whole story.
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