The Bible Salesman

Preston Clearwater has been a criminal since stealing two chain saws and 1600 pairs of aviator sunglasses from the Army during the Second World War. Back on the road in post-war North Carolina, a member of a car-theft ring, he picks up hitch-hiking Henry Dampier, an innocent nineteen-year-old Bible salesman. Clearwater immediately recognizes Henry as just the associate he needs -- one who will believe is working as an F.B.I. spy; one who will drive the cars Clearwater steals as Clearwater follows along in another car at a safe distance. Henry joyfully sees a chance to lead a dual life as Bible salesman and a G-man. During his hilarious and scary adventures we learn of Henry's fundamentalist youth, an upbringing that doesn't prepare him for his new life. As he falls in love and questions his religious training, Henry begins to see he's being used -- that the fun and games are over, that he is on his own in a way he never imagined.

Living on the wrong side of the law in the decades following World War II, car thief Preston Clearwater picks up hitchhiking Bible salesperson Henry Dampier and endeavors to transform him into an innocent-faced partner-in-crime.

It was 1981, during his junior year at college, Kelley Litsch was about to go on an adventure of a lifetime. Starting with a prayer at the side of his bed of his dorm room in April, he gave God complete control over his summer. Within minutes of the prayer, God started moving and did not stop. This adventure involved the occupation as a door-to-door bible salesman, but life-long lessons emerged. His daily forays into the hills of Virginia and North Carolina introduced him to a new way of life; a life of daily dependence upon God including miracles, close calls with death, and meeting some of the finest people on earth, and some not so fine. This book gives great examples of faith, constant prayer, leadership, and tenacity. Mainly it tells the story of what God can do with a willing believer using that person's personality. Kelley Litsch was raised on a farm near Lockney, Texas and moved to Altus, Oklahoma as a teenager when both parents became schoolteachers. He graduated with a Psychology degree from Oklahoma State University in 1982. He has worked in the property and casualty insurance field since graduation. He has taught as well as led small groups in church for the past three decades. He and wife Lisa live outside of Lubbock, Texas and have two children and two grandchildren.

Selected by the Library of Congress as one of the most significant American films ever made, Salesman (1966–9) is a landmark in non-fiction cinema, equivalent in its impact and influence to Truman Capote's 'non-fiction novel' In Cold Blood. The film follows a team of travelling Bible salesmen on the road in Massachusetts, Chicago, and Florida, where the American dream of self-reliant entrepreneurship goes badly wrong for protagonist Paul Brennan. Long acknowledged as a high-water mark of the 'direct cinema' movement, this ruefully comic and quietly devastating film was the first masterpiece of Albert Maysles, David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin, the trio who would go on to produce The Rolling Stones documentary, Gimme Shelter (1970). Based on the premise that films drawn from ordinary life could compete with Hollywood extravaganzas, Salesman was critical in shaping 'the documentary feature'. A novel cinema-going experience for its time, the film was independently produced, designed for theatrical release and presented without voiceover narration, interviews, or talking heads. Working with innovative handheld equipment, and experimenting with eclectic methods and a collaborative ethos, the Maysles brothers and Zwerin produced a carefully-orchestrated narrative drama fashioned from unexpected episodes. J. M. Tyree suggests that Salesman can be understood as a case study of non-fiction cinema, raising perennial questions about reality and performance. His analysis provides an historical and cultural context for the film, considering its place in world cinema and its critical representations of dearly-held national myths. The style of Salesman still makes other documentaries look static and immobile, while the film's allegiances to everyday subjects and working people indelibly marked the cinema. Tyree's insightful study also includes an exclusive exchange with Albert Maysles about the film.

Learn how ad men make millions and Jesus changed the world, using these powerful persuasive techniques. Jesus: Salesman for God shows how the awesome power of advertising works in the media, how Jesus used these same sales techniques in the Bible, and how they can work miracles for you in everyday life. Discover how to get family, friends, and fellow workers to see and follow your point of view. Learn how to disagree without getting into an argument. R.W. Klamm can make it happen for you. He combines his easy-to-read, award-winning style with his extensive background in religion, advertising, performance in the magical arts, and vast teaching experience to bring you these life changing insights. There are even a few entertaining presentations for Christian performers. Let Jesus: Salesman for God change your life. Become a salesman, not a huckster, for God. Earlier award winning books by R. W. Klamm: Outfox the Kids for Fun and Profit, makes parenting more fun; Get More Laughs From Your Laughs, makes it fun to be funny; Fly like a Bumblebee, memoirs of a blind magician.

Laced with anecdotes based on the experiences of the author and the many others he has known, loved, mentored, coached, and partnered with, GOD IS A SALESMAN shows us how to translate powerful lessons from God into tools to help us achieve extraordinary success through better relationships, and new dimensions in life.

A Southern Negro boy - who has seen God - wanders north to a New York tenement district as a Bible salesman and to establish a mission.