Zephyros
I haven't read the book, but I believe you. Most people are dull when you pull back the curtains of their reputations. But it's sad, really, that although we revere men like Elijah who is one of the greatest martinets in the Bible, and also others who were so deeply committed to their causes to the exclusion of everything else, our society can't really handle intensity of thought like that, unless they divest their energies in keeping the status quo, never to change it.