Product Description: Utah, now one of the most conservative states, has a long tradition of left-wing radicalism. Early Mormon settlers set a precedent with the United Order and other experiments with a socialistic economy. The tradition continued into the more recent past with New Left, anti-apartheid, and other radicals...read more

Product Description: On 13 March 1882, a twenty-five-year-old from a small Utah town, serving an LDS mission in rural Tennessee, recorded the following plaintive confession: Perhaps one-half of my life has passed away--and what have I done? But little of anything, either of good or evil; my misdeeds are like my talents--on the small order...read more

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