Getting at the Inner Man, and, Fifty Years on the Lecture Platform

This autobiography was co-written with Robert Shackleton, so it has some information from a different perspective than the subject's own. Conwell, (1843 – 1925) was an American Baptist minister, orator, philanthropist, author, lawyer, and writer. He is best remembered as the founder and first president of Temple University in Philadelphia, as the Pastor of The Baptist Temple, and for his inspirational lecture, «Acres of Diamonds».