Brigham Young: American Moses
by Leonard J. Arrington
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A biography of the Mormon leader who led his people to the American West where he founded a new society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.Tags
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Find out about the amazing person behind Conan Doyle's unintentionally slanderous, cardboard portrayal in A Study in Scarlet. My only regret is that the one-volume format made it impossible for the very able Arrington to include much, much more of Brother Brigham's wit, wisdom, and impromptu eloquence. One of America's most outstanding leaders by any measure, he makes Mitt Romney and many others look like latter-day pygmies.
Thorough, lots of primary sources, but I like more personal touches like the small memoirs from his daughter Clarissa.
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Leonard J. Arrington (PhD, University of North Carolina) was the official Church Historian of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1972 to 1982. During these years, he was also the director of the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies and the Lemuel H. Redd Jr. Professor of Western History at Brigham Young University (Provom show more Utah). Arrington died in 1999 at age eighty-one. show less
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Common Knowledge
- Original publication date
- 1985
- People/Characters
- Brigham Young
- Important places
- Utah, USA; American West
- Important events
- 19th century; Mormon Exodus
- Original language
- English
- Disambiguation notice
- 1st ed. (1985): Brigham Young : American Moses / Leonard J. Arrington.
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- Genres
- Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Biography & Memoir, History, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 289.3 — Religion Christian denominations Other denominations and sects Mormonism
- LCC
- BX8695 .Y7 .A85 — Philosophy, Psychology and Religion Christian Denominations Christian Denominations Protestantism Other Protestant denominations Mormons. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
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- 2
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- (4.00)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
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- 4
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