A Methodist Saint: The Life of Bishop Asbury

(from the back cover) The life of [the author's] illustrious relative, Bishop Francis Asbury, the founder of the Methodist Church in America, its first bishop, its directing hand and almost sole proprietor for half a century, the father of Prohibition, and one of the most extraordinary figures in early American history. This account seeks to explain him as a human being as well as in his more saintly role.