Archive for 'History' Category
Through the Lens: The Original 1907 Church History Photographs of George Edward Anderson by Andrew H. Hedges & Richard Neitzel Holzapfel
Title: Through the Lens: The Original 1907 Church History Photographs of George Edward Anderson Author: Andrew H. Hedges & Richard Neitzel Holzapfel Publisher: Deseret Book, Salt Lake City, UT Genre: Non Fiction Year Published: 2010 Number of Pages: i-xiv; 1-106 Binding: Hardbound ISBN10: N/A ISBN13: 978-1-60641-236-7 Price: $49.99 Reviewed by Steve Eccles for the Association [...]
The Master’s Hand: The Art of Carl Heinrich Bloch by Dawn C. Pheysey and Richard Neitzel Holzaphel
Title: The Master’s Hand: The Art of Carl Heinrich Bloch Author: Dawn C. Pheysey and Richard Neitzel Holzaphel Publisher: Deseret Book/BYU Museum of Art Genre: Art and inspiration Year Published: 2010 Number of Pages: 176 Binding: Large hardback ISBN10: n/a ISBN13: 978-1-60641-926-7 Price: $32.99 Reviewed by Jeffrey Needle for the Association for Mormon Letters BYU’s [...]
Within These Prison Walls: Lorenzo Snow’s Record Book, 1886-1897 by Andrew H. Hedges, Richard Neitzel Holzapfel
Title: Within These Prison Walls: Lorenzo Snow’s Record Book, 1886-1897 Editors: Andrew H. Hedges, Richard Neitzel Holzapfel Publisher: Provo: Religious Studies Center/Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Genre: History Year: 2010 Pages: 152 ISBN13: 9780842527620 Binding: Hardcover Price: $21.99 Reviewed by Blair Dee Hodges – Association for Mormon Letters Lorenzo Snow, an apostle of the Church [...]
Escape from Rwanda by John Yves Bizimana
Title: Escape from Rwanda Author: John Yves Bizimana Publisher: Deseret Book Genre: Non-fiction, memoir Year Published: 2010 Number of Pages: 160 Binding: Hardcover ISBN10: n/a ISBN13: 978-1-60641-830-7 Price: $18.99 Reviewed by Jeffrey Needle for the Association for Mormon Letters (Note: page numbers refer to the galley, not the finished book.) This is a tough review [...]
Joseph W. Musser’s Book of Remembrance – Lorin C. Woolley
Author Name: Briney, Drew (edited by) Title: Joseph W. Musser’s Book of Remembrance Brand new hardcover book! Limted printing of 275, 8.75″ x 11.5″; 215 pages; First Printing Signed by Editor Drew Briney. For many observers, Lorin C. Woolley is the center figure of the Mormon fundamentalist movement because he made claims to a line [...]
Gettysburg to Great Salt Lake: George R. Maxwell, Civil War Hero and Federal Marshal among the Mormons by John Gary Maxwell
Title: Gettysburg to Great Salt Lake: George R. Maxwell, Civil War Hero and Federal Marshal among the Mormons Author: John Gary Maxwell Publisher: Arthur H. Clark ISBN13: 987-0-87062-388-2 Price:$39.95 Reviewed by Steve Eccles for the Association for Mormon Letters I had never heard of George Maxwell, which probably is an indication of my lack of [...]
Magnum Opus: The Building of the Schoenstein Organ at the Conference Center of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City by John Longhurst
Title: Magnum Opus: The Building of the Schoenstein Organ at the Conference Center of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City Author: John Longhurst Publisher: Intellectual Reserve, Inc. Genre: History/Music Published: 2009 Pages: xi, 210 ISBN: 9781606411995 Price: $32.99 Reviewed by Blair Dee Hodges (Editor’s note: our good reviewer Blair Hodges [...]
Mormon Convert, Mormon Defector: A Scottish Immigrant in the American West, 1848-1861 by Polly Aird
Title: Mormon Convert, Mormon Defector: A Scottish Immigrant in the American West, 1848-1861 Author: Polly Aird Publisher: Arthur H. Clark Genre: Biography Year Published: 2009 Number of Pages: 320 Binding: Hardcover ISBN10: 0870623699 ISBN13: 978-0870623691 Price: $39.95 Reviewed by Bryan Buchanan for the Association for Mormon Letters As I was in the middle of reading [...]
So Rugged and Mountainous: Blazing the Trails to Oregon and California, 1812-1848 by Will Bagley
Title: So Rugged and Mountainous: Blazing the Trails to Oregon and California, 1812-1848 Author: Will Bagley Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press Genre: Western History Year Published: 2010 Number of pages: 480 Binding: Cloth ISBN-10: n.a. ISBN-13: 978-0-87062-381-3 Price: $45.00 Reviewed by Roy Schmidt for the Association for Mormon Letters I first drove across the United [...]
The Silence of God by Gale Sears
Title: The Silence of God Author: Gale Sears Publisher: Deseret Book, Salt Lake City, UT Genre: historical fiction Year Published: 2010 Number of Pages: 400 pages Binding: softcover ISBN10: N/A ISBN13: 978-1-60641-655-6 Price: $24.99 Reviewed by Beth Roach for the Association for Mormon Letters What a wonderful book this was to read. The author weaves [...]