NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "In this dramatic page-turner, Raymond Arroyo has captured the life and lessons of Mother Angelica, a woman who may well be the patron saint of CEOs."--Lee Iacocca, The Iacocca Family Foundation, former CEO of the Chrysler Corporation In 1981, a simple nun, using merely her entrepreneurial instincts and two hundred dollars, launched what would become the world's largest religious media empire. In the garage of a Birmingham, Alabama, monastery, the Eternal Word Television Network grew at a staggering pace under her guidance, both in viewership and in influence. It currently reaches over a hundred million viewers in hundreds of countries around the globe. Even now, Mother Angelica (1923-2016) is on the air offering faith-filled advice, hope, and laughter to her audience through rebroadcasts of her original homilies.
Raymond Arroyo combines his journalist's objectivity and eye for detail with more than five years of exclusive interviews with Mother Angelica. He traces Mother Angelica's tortuous rise to success and exposes for the first time the fierce opposition she faced, both outside and inside her church.
