Provo, UTArchive for 'Biography' Category
The Man Behind the Discourse: A Biography of King Follett Author: Joann Follett Mortensen
Title: The Man Behind the Discourse: A Biography of King Follett Author: Joann Follett Mortensen Publisher: Greg Kofford Books Genre: Biography Year Published: 2011 Number of Pages: 601 Binding: Paperback ISBN: 978-1-58958-036-7 Price: $29.95 Reviewed by Vickie Cleverley Speek for the Association for Mormon Letters In 1830, King Follett, his wife, Louisa, and their family [...]
Swell Suffering by Veda Tebbs Hale
Title: Swell Suffering Author: Veda Tebbs Hale Publisher: Kofford Books Genre: Biography Year Published: 2011 Number of Pages: 456 ISBN: 978-1-58958-122-7 Price: n/a Reviewed by Marilyn Brown for the Association for Mormon Letters If we didn’t get the sequel to Maurine Whipple’s “Giant Joshua,” we are now privileged to have her own story, [...]
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 [...]
Larry Mullins Bodygaurd to the Prophet Turning the Page
Part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZMhD1KSzYo Part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oH7wRxYVXc Title: Bodyguard to the Prophet Authors: Larry Mullins Publisher: Cedar Fort Year Published: 2010 Number of Pages: 98 Binding: Softbound – 6×9 ISBN13: 978-1-59955-336-8 Price: $9.99 Click Here to order Reviewed by Allison G. McKenzie for the Association for Mormon Letters From a backwoodsman to an army man to [...]
Mother’s Daze by Jane Isfeld Still
Title: Mother’s Daze Author: Jane Isfeld Still Publisher: Cedar Fort Genre: Motherhood – Humor Year Published: 2010 Number of Pages: 83 Binding: Trade Paperback ISBN10: 1933002107 ISBN13: 978-1933002859 Price: $8.99 Reviewed by Russell Y Anderson, Association for Mormon Letters The title is a play on the words “Mother’s day”, but also on the frustration that [...]
Pioneer, Polygamist, Politician: The Life of Dr. Martha Hughes Cannon by Mari Grana
Title: Pioneer, Polygamist, Politician: The Life of Dr. Martha Hughes Cannon Author: Mari Grana Publisher: Two Dot, a division of the Globe Pequot Press Genre: Biography Year Published: 2009 Number of Pages: 179 Binding: Paperback ISBN13: 978-0-7627-5272-0 Price: $16.95 Check Availability, Click Here Reviewed by Lisa Tait Martha Hughes Cannon has long been known to [...]
Shattered Silence – The Untold Story of a Serial Killer’s Daughter
We had the privilege of having Bridget Cook the co-author of Shattered Silence in to talk about the book and story. Bridget is the co-author along with the biography Melissa Moore of a starling new Book. Melissa has appeared on such well-know TV shows as Oprah and Dr Phil. Here is our interview with Bridget Cook.
Am I Not a Man? The Dred Scott Story by Utah Attorney General Mark L. Shurtleff
Am I Not a Man? The Dred Scott Story by Mark L. Shurtleff Release Date: 3 November 2009 – In Stock Now for immediate delivery Price: $24.95 Publisher: Valor Publishing Group, LLC (November 3, 2009) Fiction: Historical Novel Binding: Hardbound Pages: 534 Language: English ISBN-13: 978-1-935546-00-9 Product Dimensions: 6.25 x 9.25 inches Click here to [...]
Adventures of a Church Historian By Leonard J. Arrington
In Robert Graves’ great historical novel, I, Claudius, the future Roman emperor and aspiring young historian Claudius meets two older historians in a library. Livy advocates writing history as a saga that expresses spiritual truths; Pollio says that facts are the most important elements in telling the story.
Abraham Lincoln, God’s Humble Instrument By Ron L. Andersen
Abraham Lincoln, God’s Humble Instrument By Ron L. Andersen Reviewed by Kathleen Dalton-Woodbury On 4/3/2009 Millenial Mind Publishing, 2009 Hardcover: 296 pages ISBN-10: 1-58982-518-7 ISBN-13: 978-1-58982-518-5 …