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ON THE TAIL OF A COMET
 THE LIFE OF FRANK BUCHMAN
  A Small Town American Who Awakened The Conscience Of The World.    
 by Garth Lean

  Frank Buchman was called "a man of genius" and an "apostle to the twentieth century" by the Atlantic Monthly. He was founder of the Oxford Group and Moral Re-Armament, and the man whose ideas provided the impetus behind many change-oriented initiatives such as Alcoholics Anonymous.

On The Tail Of A Comet explores the inner story behind the public figure. A man with extraordinary personal magnatism and a driving sense of a divinely-inspired   mission.

  587 pages with 88 photographs. Fully indexed and each chapter is fully source referenced. One chapter is devoted to the days leading up to the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous.

Of all the books written about Frank Buchman, this is truly the premiere effort and worthy of any AA archivists collection
Publ: Helmers & Howard, 1988, soft-cover, in fine condition.

On the Tail of a Comet: The Life of Frank Buchman
By Garth Lean
Colorado Springs, Helmers & Howard, 1988. 590 pp. $24.95 ($12.95 pb).

Garth Lean is British, author of books about Wesley and Wilberforce and a long-time associate of Frank Buchman. This book, issued originally in 1985 in Great Britain by Constable as "Frank Buchman: A Life," is a full and detailed biography, covering Buchman's life and work on all the continents, where he influenced an incredible number of lives. The book is fully documented with more than one thousand source references. Buchman was American, an ordained Lutheran minister, and a highly controversial religious leader. He was the founder of the Oxford Group, later known also as Moral Re-armament (MRA). Lean solves the problem of avoiding subjectivity by including everything, including verbatim quotations from a good many hostile critics. He does not attempt to refute them, but gives positive evidence from hundreds of distinguished leaders in public life, the church, business, and industry, equally fully documented. A blurb on the inside front jacket quotes James I. McCord in accurately assessing Buchman's significance: "Frank Buchman was one of the most charismatic and influential leaders in the Christian world in the twentieth century."