Did Kidd Succeed?

In the introduction to this book, Kidd states that his purpose in writing a new biography of George Whitfield is to focus on what other biographers have left out. Chiefly, focusing on the way Whitfield viewed himself in his own context.  However, in reading the majority of the book I find myself asking a couple of questions: when will something happen, since it moves very slow, and when is he going to get into Whitfield’s thoughts about himself and his context. He mentions some things very briefly, but he doesn’t appear, at least to me, to achieve his goal and add to the scholarship of Whitfield. That is not to say that it is not a well-researched book or that it is not full of useful information in regards to the life of this important figure. In fact he seems to borrow, both in style and information, from Heitzenrater’s history of Methodism. Beyond my own opinion, do you think that he achieved his goal in getting a better look into the mind of Whitfield than anyone else has?