Product Description: Life is never quite what is portrayed in inspirational books that draw from famous people’s experiences. For instance, one aspect that is never told in church sermons about J. Reuben Clark’s life is his near-embrace of atheism while in the State Department...read more

Product Description: Winner of the Herbert Feis Award from the American Historical Association and named one of the best religion books of the year by "Publishers Weekly", D. Michael Quinn's "Same-Sex Dynamics among Nineteenth-Century Americans" has elicited critical acclaim as well as controversy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In this ground-breaking book, D. Michael Quinn masterfully reconstructs an earlier age, finding ample evidence for folk magic in nineteenth-century New England, as he does in Mormon founder Joseph Smith's upbringing. Quinn discovers that Smith's world was inhabited by supernatural creatures whose existence could be both symbolic and real...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The Mormon church today is led by an elite group of older men, nearly three-quarters of whom are related to current or past general church authorities. This dynastic hierarchy meets in private; neither its minutes nor the church's finances are available for public review...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Winner of the Herbert Feis Award from the American Historical Association and named one of the best religion books of the year by Publishers Weekly, D. Michael Quinn's "Same-Sex Dynamics among Nineteenth-Century Americans" has elicited critical acclaim as well as controversy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A Mormon historian traces the evolution of the Latter-day Saints' organizational structure from the original, egalitarian "priesthood of believers" to an elaborately hierarchical institution. Quinn also documents the alterations in the historical record which obscured these developments and analyzes the five presiding quorums of the LDS hierarchy...read more

Product Description: The New Mormon History is the banner under which many professional historians today approach Latter-day Saint historiography. Scholars who embrace this term attempt to put significant events into context rather than bracketing data that might seem challenging to traditional assumptions...read more