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The most comprehensive biography of Leonard Arrington to date--a story of scholarship and controversy
Author : Gregory A. Prince
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 33,73 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781607814795
The most comprehensive biography of Leonard Arrington to date--a story of scholarship and controversy
Author : Leonard J. Arrington
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 23,59 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Latter Day Saint churches
ISBN : 9780252023811
Adventures of a Church Historian details how Leonard J. Arrington opened up archival resources and presided, for a time, over an unprecedented era of enlightenment as he and those working under his aegis produced path-breaking works of Mormon scholarship. Arrington was the first professional historian and the first noncentral authority to serve as church historian of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a position he held from 1972 to 1982. Arrington's church appointment came at a crucial point in LDS history, when the institution was being transformed from a regional church whose ecclesiastical hierarchy directly presided over its congregants into a modern, worldwide church with an elaborate bureaucracy. His description of conducting research in the LDS Church Archives in the days of Elder Joseph Fielding Smith and Brother A. Will Lund provides a rare glimpse into the inner workings of the LDS First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. Riveting chapters on the actions of the controversial Historical Department reveal details of Arrington's release and replacement as the old system gave way to the new.
Author : Leonard J. Arrington
Publisher :
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 40,41 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
For more than a century the history of the American Frontier, particularly the West, has been the speciality of the Arthur H. Clark Company. We publish new books, both interpretive and documentary, in small, high-quality editions for the collector, researcher, and library.
Author : Gregory A. Prince
Publisher : University of Utah Press
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 42,5 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0874808227
Focuses primarily on the years of McKay's presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints during some of the most turbulent times in American and world history.
Author : Gregory A. Prince
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,9 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Mormon Church
ISBN :
Author : Leonard J. Arrington
Publisher : Alfred A. Knopf
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 12,40 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Religion
ISBN :
The best history of the Latter-Day Saints addressed to a general audience now includes a new preface, an epilogue, and a bibliographical afterword. "This is without a doubt the definitive Mormon history".--Library Journal.
Author : James B. Allen
Publisher : Shadow Mountain
Page : 824 pages
File Size : 46,10 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Religion
ISBN :
Author : Leonard J. Arrington
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 20,34 MB
Release : 2012-06-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0345803213
Brigham Young comes to life in this superlative biography that presents him as a Mormon leader, a business genius, a family man, a political organizer, and a pioneer of the West. Drawing on a vast range of sources, including documents, personal diaries, and private correspondence, Leonard J. Arrington brings Young to life as a towering yet fully human figure, the remarkable captain of his people and his church for thirty years, who combined piety and the pursuit of power to leave an indelible stamp on Mormon society and the culture of the Western frontier. From polygamy to the Mountain Meadows Massacre to the attempted preservation of Young’s Great Basin Kingdom, we are given a fresh understanding of the controversies that plagued Young in his contentious relations with the federal government. Brigham Young draws its subject out of the marginal place in history to which the conventional wisdom has assigned him, and sets him squarely in the American mainstream, a figure of abiding influence in our society to this day.
Author : Gregory A. Prince
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,44 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Mormon Church
ISBN :
Author : Leonard J. Arrington
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,94 MB
Release : 1958
Category : Utah
ISBN : 9780674360501