This book concentrates on people and not systems. But they are presented without sentimentality or false glamour and Campbell's shred eye for detail and dry humour keep him close to reality.
A talented reporter portrays a complex, changing country by allowing a people in conflict with themselves to speak from their hearts. This book is unusual in that it concentrates on people - it is a gallery of contemporary portraits painted without illusions.
Alexander Campbell was born September 12, 1788, in the county of Antrim, Ireland. But though born in Ireland, his ancestors were, on one side, of Scotch origin, and on the other, descended from the Huguenots, in France. A profound reverence for the Word of God, was a marked feature of the character alike of the boy and of the man.
He was not less laborious as a speaker than as a writer. During all these years, he traveled extensively, traversing most of the states of the Union, and visiting Great Britain and Ireland; discoursing everywhere to crowded audiences, on the great themes that occupied his heart, and coming into contact with many of the best minds of the age, from whom, whatever their difference of sentiment, he constantly challenged respect and admiration.
In addition to forty volumes, Mr. Campbell published several other works.
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