| Brigham Young: American Moses Contributor(s): Arrington, Leonard J. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0252012968 ISBN-13: 9780252012969 Publisher: University of Illinois Press OUR PRICE: $20.66 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 1986 Annotation: 'Arrington gives readers as good a picture as they are likely to get of the man who assumed leadership of the major part of the Mormon church when Joseph Smith was assassinated in 1844.'-R. Laurence Moore, New York Times Book Review |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 85024533 |
| Physical Information: 1.18" H x 5.95" W x 8.99" (1.60 lbs) 560 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Plains - Geographic Orientation - Utah |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: From the preface: "Brigham Young was the supreme American paradox, not because he contained elements foreign to American soil but because he united them--the business genius of a Rockefeller with the spiritual sensitivities of an Emerson, the lusty enjoyments of the pleasures of good living with the tenderness of a Florence Nightingale. He was not merely an entrepreneur with a shared vision of America as the Promised Land; he was a prophet with visions of his own and he built beyond himself." |