"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."

Brigham Young: American Moses

ARRINGTON, Leonard J.

Religion & Spirituality

University of Illinois Press

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.

Adventures of a Church Historian

Christian Books & Bibles

Building the City of God is the only detailed treatment of the United Order movement among the Mormon people, tracing its development and that of various other cooperative associations and economic enterprises that were based on the Law of Consecration and Stewardship. Included are the communal-sharing experiences in Nauvoo and during pioneer migrations to the Salt Lake Valley. The book also contains chapters on Zion's Board of Trade and on the church welfare program, a still successful system begun during the 1930s to deal with poverty during the Depression.

BUILDING THE CITY OF GOD: Community and Cooperation among the Mormons

May, Dean

Fox, Feramorz

The best history of the Latter-day Saints addressed to a general audience now includes a new preface, an epilogue, and a bibliographical after-word.

The Mormon Experience: A HISTORY OF THE LATTER-DAY SAINTS

Bitton, Davis

Leonard Arrington, who died in 1999, is considered by most, if not all, serious scholars of Mormon and western history as the single most important figure to write on LDS history. Great Basin Kingdom is perhaps his greatest work. A classic in Mormon studies and western history, Great Basin Kingdom offers insights into the 'underdeveloped' American economy, a comprehensive treatment of one of the few native American religious movements, and detailed, exciting stories from little-known phases of Mormon and American history. This edition includes thirty new pictures and an introduction by Ronald W. Walker that provides a brief biography of Arrington, as well as the history of the work, its place in Mormon and western historiography, and its lasting impact.

Great Basin Kingdom: An Economic History of the Latter-day Saints, 1830-1900, New Edition

Business & Money

Walker, Ronald W.

Economics

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.

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Vintage

The Mormon Experience: A History of the Latter-day Saints

New research and recently released documents present an account of the rise and success of Mormonism from its origins in the 1820s, through its turbulent nineteenth-century history, to the present

KNOPF

An historian of the Mormon Church draws on diaries and letters not available to previous biographers to profile the highly gifted and controversial church leader

Great Basin Kingdom represents an attempt to give meaning to an American experience that often has been obscured by sectarian controversy. This volume discusses the basis behind the Mormon Econimic system and its success.

Great Basin Kingdom

History

Americas

University Of Nebraska Press

Conflict between matters of faith and historical truth has been a conundrum at the heart of doing and telling the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (also known as the Mormon Church). Some of the best essays on that topic were written by Leonard J. Arrington, perhaps the best-known member of the group of professionals who founded the New Mormon History of the late twentieth century. Now, Arrington’s essay on history and the Mormons are collected in a single source work. Arrington rose to prominence during the so-called “flowering of Mormon history.” In a precedent-breaking move, he was made Church Historian in January 1972, the first professional historian to serve in the position. His ideas, as expressed in the essays collected here, helped to determine how Mormon history was written during the last part of the twentieth century. Arrington sought a middle way between the extremes of defending or attacking faith claims―two forces that drove most nineteenth-century and even much twentieth-century writing on the Mormons. He not only adopted a neutral stance in his writing as LDS Historian, his name became connected inseparably with the New Mormon History because of his personality and the quality of his work. The fourteen essays offered here are autobiographical, reflective, analytical, personal, and prophetic. Together, they constitute an illuminating study of the challenges faced by all who study history and face the conflicts its telling involves. Supplementing the essays are a biographical sketch by historian Ronald W. Walker, a chronology of Arrington’s life, and a detailed bibliography of his published works and speeches, prepared by David J. Whitaker. A personal tribute to Arrington is given by his daughter, historian Susan Arrington Madsen. The book has a bibliography and index. It is bound in rust linen cloth, has a foil stamped spine and a full-color dust jacket.

Reflections of a Mormon Historian: Leonard J. Arrington on the New Mormon History

Neilson, Reid L.

The Arthur H. Clark Company

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Brigham Young: American Moses

Adventures of a Church Historian

BUILDING THE CITY OF GOD: Community and Cooperation among the Mormons

The Mormon Experience: A HISTORY OF THE LATTER-DAY SAINTS

Great Basin Kingdom: An Economic History of the Latter-day Saints, 1830-1900, New Edition

Brigham Young: American Moses

The Mormon Experience: A History of the Latter-day Saints

Brigham Young: American Moses

Great Basin Kingdom

Reflections of a Mormon Historian: Leonard J. Arrington on the New Mormon History