The Mormon Experience: A History of the Latter-day Saints

The best history of the Latter-day Saints addressed to a general audience now includes a new preface, an epilogue, and a bibliographical after-word.

History

Leonard J. Arrington

Davis Bitton

World

Vintage

Charles C. Rich Mormon General and Western Frontiersman (Studies in Mormon History)

Brigham Young University Press

David Eccles was Utah's first multi-millionaire; Utah's greatest businessman and financier and his illustrious family. This biography was written by Leonard J. Arrington, one of Utah's most accomplished historians.

David Eccles: Pioneer western industrialist

Utah State University

Present a warts-and-all portrayal of the United Order through all of its phases in LDS history. Dealing frankly with its failures and the causes for those failures, the authors manage to still uphold the principles of the system as inspired, and the failures as necessary stepping stones in the continuing movement among Latter-day Saints to provide social welfare.

Building the city of God: Community & cooperation among the Mormons

Religion & Spirituality

Dean L. May

Feramorz Y. Fox

Christian Books & Bibles

Deseret Book Co.

Edwin Dilworth Woolley was born and raised in West Chester, Pennsylvania. His family were initially members of the Society of Friends (Quakers). He converted to Mormonism in 1837, was a pioneer, an early Latter-day Saint bishop in Salt Lake City, and a businessman in early Utah Territory who operated mills.

From Quaker to Latter-Day Saint: Bishop Edwin D. Woolley

Seventeen well known Church members tell of turning points in their lives; points at which lessons were learned and concepts internalized.

Turning points

LGBTQ+ Books

George D. Durrant

Jack Weyland

Vaughn J. Featherstone

Elaine Cannon

Russell M. Nelson

JoAnn Ottley

Lowell L. Bennion

Roy Darley

Connie Rector

Literature & Fiction

Bookcraft

A Thoughtful Faith Essays on Belief By Mormon Scholars

Philip L. Barlow

Thomas G. Alexander

Richard H. Cracroft

Mary L. Bradford

Richard L. Bushman

Robert C. Fletcher

John T. Kesler

Richard D. Poll

E. Gary Smith

Canon Press

Unlike most Mormon histories, Saints without Halos is a treatment of the human, rather than institutional side of Mormon history. Through the fascinating experiences of seventeen Latter-day Saints, Leonard J. Arrington and Davis Bitton sketch Mormonism from its earliest beginnings to modern times. These are Saints presented not as objects of veneration, but as "human beings who, like the rest of us, struggle to be worthy of the title Latter-day Saint." Two were apostles. One was an enthusiastic supporter and friend of Joseph Smith, who eventually left the main body of the Church to lead his own band to Texas. The other was a link in the chain of a renowned Mormon family whose positions in the leading councils of the Church span virtually the entire history of Mormonism. The other fifteen individuals, except for one colorful non-Mormon advocate, are "ordinary" Latter-day Saints-faithful members who helped realize the vision of their prophetic leaders: a personal friend of Joseph Smith, missionaries and converts, a plural wife, an Indian woman, a widowed immigrant, pioneers and philosophers, bishops and blacksmiths, and even a historian. In this book, the authors of The Mormon Experience draw on their vast knowledge of Mormon diaries and other first-hand accounts to disclose the rich diversity of Mormonism as well as its unity of purpose.

Saints Without Halos: The Human Side of Mormon History

Signature Books

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