A Normal Childhood
May 4, 2018We asked if there were ever any hard feelings or jealousy between the wives or families. He said that, to the best of his knowledge, there were never any serious problems of this sort. One…
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On the Conditions Which Precede Revelation
May 4, 2018A logical error is committed by so many Church members who believe they are defending the faith that the time has come to point it out. It is assumed in such Dialogue letters as those…
The Schroeder Mormon Collection at the Wisconsin State Historical Library
May 4, 2018Shortly before the turn of this century, a young criminal lawyer practicing in Salt Lake City, published on the back of one of his own pamphlets the following advertisement: “I want all books on the…
A Mormon Record | Leroy Robertson, Book of Mormon Oratorio
May 4, 2018Mormons know Governor Romney, Billy Casper, Gene Fullmer, and Grant Johannesen. Most have heard of Bach, Beethoven, Brahms. Fewer know of Gershwin, Bernstein, Copland, Bloch. But who can name the Church’s only living composer of…
A Cautionary Voice | Elliott D. Landau, You and Your Child’s World
May 4, 2018Dr. Landau, a specialist in child development at the University of Utah, has compiled a warm and sensitive book of advice for parents. The book consists of short discussions on special topics, many edited from…
Philosophical Clarification | Truman G. Madsen, Eternal Man
May 4, 2018This volume by Dr. Madsen, Professor of Philosophy at the Brigham Young University, consists of seven essays. The first, “Whence Cometh Man?” raises philosophical problems which become the subjects of the six essays which follow.…
Strange People in a Strange Land | Howard Roberts Lamar, The Far Southwest, 1846-1912: A Territorial History
May 4, 2018Howard R. Lamar, professor of history at Yale University and author of Dakota Territory, 1861-1899: A Study of Frontier Politics (1956), has extended his investigations to the Far Southwest and produced a scholarly, highly readable,…
A Kingdom to Come | Klaus J. Hansen, Quest for Empire: The Political Kingdom of God and the Council of Fifty in Mormon History
May 4, 2018In January, 1863, when Union fortunes were low in the Civil War, the governor of the self-proclaimed State of Deseret (Utah) sent these words to the legislature of that quasi-government: This body of men will…
An Ambiguous Heritage | Jerrold L. Newquist, Prophets, Principles and National Survival
May 4, 2018Mr. Newquist attempts in this book to present a particular view of the relationship between the doctrines of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and current political, economic, and social philosophy. The method…
Mormonism and the American Dream | Richard Vetterli, The Constitution by a Thread
May 4, 2018Joseph Smith prophesied that the time would come when the United States Constitution would hang by a thread; and he indicated that if it were preserved it would be by the Latter-day Saints. The Mormon…