Description: Compared to the Puritans, Mormons have rarely gotten their due, often treated as fringe cultists or marginalized polygamists unworthy of serious examination. In Kingdom of Nauvoo, Benjamin E. Park excavates the brief, tragic life of a lost Mormon city, demonstrating that the Mormons are essential to understanding American history writ large. Using newly accessible sources, Park recreates the Mormons' 1839 flight from Missouri to Illinois. There, under the charismatic leadership of Joseph Smith, they founded Nauvoo, which shimmered briefly-but Smith's challenge to democratic traditions, as well as his new doctrine of polygamy, would bring about its fall. His wife Emma, rarely written about, opposed him, but the greater threat came from without: in 1844, a mob murdered Joseph, precipitating the Mormon trek to Utah. Throughout his absorbing chronicle, Park shows that far from being outsiders, the Mormons were representative of their era in their distrust of democracy and their attempt to forge a sovereign society of their own.
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EAN: 9781631494864
UPC: 9781631494864
ISBN: 9781631494864
MPN: N/A
Format: Hardback, 336 pages
Author: Benjamin E. (Sam Houston State University) Park
Book Title: Kingdom of Nauvoo: The Rise and Fall of a Religiou
Item Height: 3.6 cm
Item Length: 23.9 cm
Item Weight: 0.61 kg
Item Width: 15.5 cm
Language: Eng
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
