Chatty, literary style, filled with minute details of Campbell's life, including a brief bio of Thomas Campbell. Wrather spent her life researching and writing about Campbell. Cummins was able to convince her to pare it down just a tad. She died after the first volume was completed. It is to be hoped that Cummins will be able to take the rest of Wrather's work and publish it, also. Very readable. Indexed.

kaulsu | Mar 27, 2007 |

The book is a "literary biography" and is not footnoted. However, Eva Jean Wrather (deceased) was an expert on the life of Alexander Campbell and I trust that she and editor D. Duane Cummins provide a biography that is true to the facts.

The book covers the life of Campbell from his birth in Scotland (1788) up to the end of 1822, just prior to the "Christian Baptist" years.

The book includes a number of photos and an index. Excellent for students or persons interested in learning of one of the great leaders of the Stone-Campbell heritage. (

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norwayken | Nov 23, 2005 |

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Amazon.com Book Description (ISBN 0875653057, Hardcover)

Eva Jean Wrather devoted seventy years to writing an 800,000-word biography of Alexander Campbell, founder of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), a monumental literary biography described by D. Duane Cummins as "a creative and skillful blend of history and superb literary writing skills."

In the early 1990s, Cummins was asked to assist Ms. Wrather in revising her manuscript. Their work together makes up Volume One of Campbell's biography (TCU Press, 2005).

Volume Two follows Campbell's life from 1823-1830, years filled with the storm of opinions in the pages of his successful magazine, The Christian Baptist, which won mixed hostility and support in Baptist and Presbyterian communities. Wrather records Campbell's experience as a politician and delegate to the Virginia Constitutional Convention in 1829, where Campbell brushed shoulders with some of America's most famous politicians and rhetoricians. Wrather believed these years were a crucial chapter in Campbell's life, confirming his power as a thinker, speaker and writer.

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