To pass public judgment upon a work after a relatively cursory perusal seems, at best, a bit unfair, for each work, to the author, is more than the final product; and perhaps the reader can…
For every serious student of Utah’s history, there is a first time to visit the dusty archives or the microfilm files of the Salt Lake Tribune of half a century or more ago. Two impressions…
In the final chapter of this book appear the words: Someone has said that writing a man’s life is like sending a bucket into a deep well and drawing it out full, then dipping a…
Let us begin by accentuating the positive, even if it proves impossible to eliminate the negative in discussing William Roper’s and Leonard Arrington’s biographical study of William Spry, Utah’s Governor during the period from 1909…
Both of these books are composed of a number of short autobiographical accounts of L.D.S. Church members who have achieved success in important personal quests. Win If You Will, like a series of good Priest’s…
More and more acts of poetry are being committed by Mormons these days. Before me are four volumes attesting to a variety of interests and a variety in printing and format. I am happy to…
Joseph Smith’s New England Heritage by Dr. Richard L. Anderson is an important contribution to an understanding of Joseph Smith’s immediate ancestry and the domestic environment in which he was raised. Since Joseph attributed dominant…
In a recent New Era article (August 1972) Arthur Henry King made an incisive comment about Mormon literature: Mormon artists, he said, “need not write especially for Mormons, and they need not write especially on…
When so many biographies of early Mormons are made immaculate (and superficial) by filial piety, it borders on the tragic when an historian seeking to write an objective life of Sidney Rigdon fails in many…
With vivid cunning
she draws rounded
petals of smoke
within her mouth,