[…] to the East Coast, instruction in the American political system and an introduction into the Mormon publishing world satisfy these three ambitions in one two-month gambit? Simple—she packs herself off to Washington D.C. on […]
[…] contractors who raised their bids by 20% because payment was so slow in coming, and starving Indians breaking out of one reservation while Indians at another reservation had too much food. Sometimes the problems […]
[…] up in Provo, I never questioned exhortations from the pulpit to remain unspotted from the wicked outside world, to be in but not part of its iniquities and abominations. I was fully aware of […]
[…] in a game from which he had thought he was protected by the grandfather clause.” Joe Allston’s search for his roots becomes a search for the meaning of his life. This search entails a […]
[…] breath rasped, and for an instant he thought that he too was on the brink of that world where spirits whisper and wait. “I’m sorry, Regina,” he said. “You cried on the day we […]
[…] I was doing in order to give them a full debriefing after their foray into the outside world. While this was going on, I collected handfuls of paintings, demands for school fees, notes from […]
“Marriner Eccles was American economic history,” says G. L. Bach in the foreword to this enlightening biography. Eccles’ life was an “extraordinary encapsulation in one man of the explosive changes” in business and government […]
[…] competent historians must and do expect criticism. They should welcome it, as it is essential to their search for the truth about what happened and why it happened. But competent criticism is one thing, […]
[…] was thin and flat as wallpaper. Parley was her brother. Sarah knew he had died in either World War I or World War II—she couldn’t remember which. “It’s okay, Gran,” Sarah said. “Go back […]
[…] Ancient Book,” is inconclusive (pp. 76-94). Griggs correctly observes that “the assumption that any parallels from the world of Joseph Smith, real or imagined, are sufficient to discredit the authenticity of the work is […]