Rhinestone Cowboy

With extraordinary candor intended to set the record straight, one of music's most popular performers tells of his sojourn amid the decadence and destructive trappings of fame—the bucks, the booze, the cocaine, the women—and of the religious awakening and unconditionally loving marriage that literally saved his life.

Glen Campbell's boy-next-door persona belied his hedonistic, near-fatal lifestyle. It all started like a dream—the rise from ruthless poverty as one of twelve children in a sma...