Heber C. Kimball: MORMON PATRIARCH AND PIONEER

Heber C. Kimball was Mormonism's most colorful leader and a major force
in shaping, sustaining, and spreading the Mormon faith. Only Joseph Smith
and Brigham Young wielded as much authority or had as much influence during
the first four decades of the Mormon church. This is the first comprehensive
and objective biography of Kimball since 1888. Stanley B. Kimball, Heber's
great-great-grandson, shows us the man in all of his many dimensions---missionary,
pioneer, preacher, politician, farmer, father, and husband.
"Superb! This is a superior biography, based almost entirely on
manuscript sources, few of which have been used or even examined by other
scholars. It is new, it is fresh, it is fast-moving, it has the ring of
truth, there is little editorializing, and it is written with economy,
clarity, and balance."
-- Leonard J. Arrington, author of Brigham Young: American Moses