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Richard E. Turley, Jr.

Autor(a) de Saints, Vol. 1: The Standard of Truth: 1815–1846

23+ Works 814 Membros 16 Reviews

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Obras de Richard E. Turley, Jr.

Saints, Vol. 1: The Standard of Truth: 1815–1846 (2018) — General Editor — 300 cópias
Massacre at Mountain Meadows (2008) 171 cópias
Stories from the Life of Joseph Smith (1800) — Autor — 36 cópias
Women of Faith in the Latter Days, Volume 1 (2011) — Editor — 33 cópias
The Journals of George Q. Cannon: To California in 49 (1999) — General editor — 17 cópias
The Journals of George Q. Cannon: Hawaiian Mission, 1850-1854 (2014) — General editor — 9 cópias

Associated Works

Encyclopedia of Mormonism (1992) — Contribuinte — 56 cópias
Encyclopedia of Latter-day Saint History (2000) — Contribuinte — 40 cópias
Mapping Mormonism (2012) — Contribuinte — 32 cópias
Mormonism: A Historical Encyclopedia (2010) — Contribuinte — 7 cópias
Parley P. Pratt and the Making of Mormonism (2011) — Contribuinte — 4 cópias

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This is a really fascinating book and I now see why it caused a lot of Mormons to start questioning LDS church history.
 
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Moshepit20 | outras 4 resenhas | Nov 4, 2023 |
From Pages xv and xvi: "We believe our decision to tell the story in a narrative style is another reason Massacre at Mountain Meadows reached so many readers. We chose to continue that narrative format in this volume . . ."

From Page 3: "As her eyes adjusted to the coolness of the brick-and-plaster interior, she made out several clerk desks."

There is narrative history and then there are non-fiction novels. That quote from Page 3 feels like it belongs more in the latter. I hope it was an outlier.… (mais)
 
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cpg | May 25, 2023 |
4.5 Stars

I must admit I was underwhelmed at the beginning. The pacing was done well ("started with a bang" as someone somewhere said) but the language was simple. Definitely not the type of historical style that is or has been popular lately and, I must admit, I was unprepared for that. The writers aimed for simplicity and clarity. I still wish it had been the beautiful prose I love (hence the -.5 stars) BUT, and I'm not sure when this redirection happened, upon personal reassessment at 3 chapters in I loved it. *

In spite of the language, I found the story to be full of the drama that is human life. Not the triangle type, but the living, dying, trying to provide a living, trying to do the best and failing and then trying again type. I found people that were indisputably good and still indisputably human and bending under the day-to-day cares and troubles that I know so well.

Most history books previously had focused on Joseph Smith with a dose of Emma thrown in. But here! There were women, scores of women, whose voices told their own story. There were women who traveled the world, women who were single, women who were old, from every type of life imaginable. I wish I had been able to read this when I was single because I would have felt in good company. There were people from all over the world (listed by name!) who challenged my inadvertently preconceived notions about early congregations and communities of that time period.

They shied away from telling the popular stories, if they weren't necessary (Goodbye Father Tanner), and went for the stories you didn't hear all the time (whatever happened to Edward Partridge anyway?).

I got lost in the footnotes, just like I did in [a:Gerald N. Lund's|207452|Gerald N. Lund|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1458916871p2/207452.jpg] similar series, only these were better because it was their handwriting and contained so much more details about life then than the part that corresponded to that event. I learned things at times and at other times-- for example Parley's escape from prison and Orson Hyde's and Orson Pratt's returning to Nauvoo-- I thought "There's a little bit more to the story according to Susan Easton Black, but that's the general gist."

Couple of notes regarding some complaints:
Some reviewers pointed out that certain facts were not "dealt with." So, therefore, I was absolutely blindsided when they were addressed. Not with suppositions, but with the available primary sources which, as Dr. Underwood always stressed in my history class, are the only sources one should ever use. The text is quite bluntly honest when it doesn't have such sources. For more questions/answers look here.


* Minor question: Where was Lorenzo Snow? His story would have added some texture to several points of history, I'm sure. Also, here's wishing Anson had showed up at least once.
… (mais)
 
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OutOfTheBestBooks | outras 4 resenhas | Sep 24, 2021 |
Once upon a time my husband and I went to a local production of Charley's Aunt. As the lights dimmed, two older couples slipped into the seats in front of us. There was something familiar about the shiny dome in front of me and, looking to the right, I recognized Kristen McMain Oaks(I am still a huge fan). They laughed just as much as anyone in that audience that night. That experience contrasted deeply with young me's comment to my mother that he didn't sound nice. The book talks about this.

This is a solid, surprisingly candid, and transparent book. I got the impression that he just turned his journals and copies of correspondence over to the author. Understandably, it lacked June's viewpoint, but that could not be helped. There was so much that I appreciated, much of which I really can't articulate here because that would require too much of my own backstory.

The last section post-call to the Quorum of the Twelve was more topical than chronological--- which I get. It did lead to some repetition but it wasn't too bad. Just enough to be noticeable.
… (mais)
 
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OutOfTheBestBooks | Sep 24, 2021 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
23
Also by
24
Membros
814
Popularidade
#31,349
Avaliação
½ 4.3
Resenhas
16
ISBNs
43

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