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1 online resource illustrations |
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Introduction : not exceptional, typical, or Americanized : the Latter-day Saint experience with American politics / by Keith A. Erekson -- "Some little necromancy" : politics, religion, and the Mormons, 1829-1838 / Adam Jortner -- "Many think this Is a hoax" : the newspaper response to Joseph Smith's 1844 presidential campaign / Spencer W. McBride -- The perils of a Protestant democracy : Mormon and Catholic conceptions of democratic rule in the 1840s / Benjamin E. Park -- "The woman's movement has discovered a new enemy -- the Mormon Church" : the Equal Rights Amendment missionary program in Mormon Utah / Natalie K. Rose -- "The way of the transgressor Is hard" : the Black Hawk and Mormon wars in the construction of Illinois political culture, 1832-1846 / Amy S. Greenberg -- "Like a swarm of locusts" : perceptions of Mormon geopolitical power in a non-U.S. West, 1844-1848 / Thomas Richards Jr. -- "In the style of an independent sovereign": mid-nineteenth-century Mormon martial law proclamations in American political culture / Brent M. Rogers -- Political perceptions of Mormon polygamy and the struggle for Utah statehood, 1847-1896 / Stephen E. Smith -- A snake in the sugar : magazines, the Hardwick Committee, and the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company, 1910-1911 / Matthew C. Godfrey -- "Rather than recognize this wretched imposture" : Edward Everett, rational religion, and the territory of Utah/Deseret / Matthew Mason -- Ambiguous allegiances, divided sovereignty : the Mormon experience in context / Rachel St. John -- Mormons at mid-century : "crushed politically, curtailed economically," but winning "universal respect for their devotion and achievements" / J.B. Haws -- The historic conflicts of our time : Ezra Taft Benson and national media representations of late twentieth-century Mormonism / Patrick Q. Mason |
| Summary |
"American's willingness to accept Latter-day Saints as full participants in the American political system has varied over time, granting Mormons in the United States an ambiguous status, contingent on changing political needs and perceptions"-- Provided by publisher |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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In English |
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Print version record |
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Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- Political activity -- History
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Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- Public opinion -- History
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Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints fast |
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Latter Day Saints -- Political activity -- History
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Latter Day Saints -- Public opinion -- History
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Political culture -- United States -- History
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Public opinion -- United States -- History
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HISTORY -- United States -- General.
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Mormons -- Political activity
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Political culture
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Political participation
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Public opinion
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United States
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Electronic books
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History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
McBride, Spencer W. editor
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Rogers, Brent M. editor
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Erekson, Keith A. editor
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Jortner, Adam Joseph.
Some little necromancy
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| LC no. |
2019037680 |
| ISBN |
9781501716751 |
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1501716751 |
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9781501716744 |
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1501716743 |
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