Some years ago, back when it may have seemed I still had a fighting chance, a “friend” once cornered me and told me:
“You will never become a great man since your rabbi is a weirdo!”
First I had suicidal thoughts. But I quickly recovered and asked:
“Do you even know who the Chasam Sofer’s rabbi was?!”
Ha. Anyway, here’s a short book explaining the community leaders’ opposition to Rabbi Natan Adler zatzal here. It looks promising.
(Thanks to Kotzk Blog for the reference, but he relies far too much on academics here and elsewhere. For example, it is incorrect to say Rabbi Adler “left no writings”.)