After reading an article in the Washington Post (which I will NOT post here because it's political ;-), I have just bought the book "Brigham Young: Sovereign In America" by David Vaughn Mason.

Has anyone read this book and, if so, what was your opinion of it?

Tom in Paris

From the book "brighams obstinacy was cemented by his competence."

It's going to show the bad parts and the good parts as the sentence above implies. I glanced at it on Amazon and it will likely be a critical read. I don't think it will gloss over the bad and make him out to be a saint.

It looks like a good read?

I haven't but it comes highly recommended from a BYU source.

"As one would expect, this is not a hagiographic work (something a non-LDS publisher would be disinclined to produce) and the Brigham Young Mason portrays is sometimes not a very likable person. The book touches upon his charged language from the pulpit, his persecution-inspired suspicion over government intrusion, his mistrust of gentile merchants, his disputes with fellow Church leaders, his handling of the handcart program, his few now-discarded doctrinal innovations, his communitarian enterprises that were later disbanded, and his statements on race and priesthood that have troubled many, but the man depicted in this biography is still a remarkable human being as well as a believable one."
https://byustudies.byu.edu/content/brigham-young-sovereign-america

Thanks, Elder Berry. I'm going to read it anyway, so I'll return and report.

Tom in Paris

Let me know.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/02/2019 03:22PM by Soft Machine.

For a 200 page book. $1.00 a page?

$200 ??? Where did you see that, AuntSukey?

I got it as an EPUB file through Kobo for 31 euros - although I thought that was expensive, too ;-)