"John Turner's meticulously-researched account provides listeners with an inside look at a colossal figure in American religion, politics, and westward expansion."
"John Turner's meticulously-researched account provides listeners with an inside look at a colossal figure in American religion, politics, and westward expansion."@en
"After the 1844 murder of Mormon founder Joseph Smith, Brigham Young gathered those Latter-day Saints who would follow him and led them over the Rocky Mountains. As charismatic as he was autocratic, he was viewed by his followers as an indispensable protector and by his opponents as a theocratic, treasonous heretic. Under Young's fiery tutelage, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints defended plural marriage, restricted the place of African Americans within the church, and obstructed federal efforts to prosecute perpetrators of the Mountain Meadows Massacre. In Brigham Young, John G. Turner reveals the complexity of this spiritual prophet, whose commitment made a deep imprint on his church and the American Mountain West."@en

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