Dr. Mortensen’s book is readable; it has a flowing style and is brief. The author is entertaining, effectively using case vignettes to illustrate his points. Perhaps because of the brevity and ease of reading […]
The study of early Utah history has been notably enriched by the recent publication of two contemporary accounts from the 1850s. The Journal of Martha Spence Hey wood, 1850 to 1856 includes Martha’s […]
[…] parts of the earth, the tree of a new and thriving art must ultimately draw upon the world of which it too is a part. The nonreading Mormon by very definition will see little […]
Medicine has rediscovered that all life ends in death, and now seems marginally willing to explore the possibility of life after death. Raymond Moody, a psychiatrist trained in philosophy, writes one of the more […]
[…] by national powers of finance and government. Church members were no longer part of a distinctly Mormon world, but members of a national and international economy. With religious authority unable to organize society, the […]
[…] with the controversial and timely.” Other periodicals such as Americana, Saturday Evening Post and U.S. News & World Report were content in 1980 with reporting the Church’s 150th anniversary. A broad spectrum of writers […]
[…] joys and duties of home, family and Church, with the not-to-be-denied yearnings for wider scope in the world at large. Bushman has told us how Harriet Robinson did it in the nineteenth century. Let […]
[…] decribe man as “by nature more aggressive and bold . . . best suited to confront the world . . . His physical part in nurturing offspring is small when compared to the female.” […]
This triumphant biography is very much what we would expect the official story of a beloved General Authority to be. It is the story of the good boy who grew better and better, of […]
[…] followed the gold rush to California; one each traveled to Utah and Oregon. Al though the common search for fuel, water, and pasture run through both volumes, two problems were unique to 1850. Most […]