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Cook, Lyndon W.;Law, William, 1809-1892

William Law: Biographical Essay, Nauvoo Diary, Correspondence, Interview

Orem, Utah

Grandin Book

1994

This biographical essay attempts to identify the fundamental causes of William Law's apostasy (1844). Cook thus looks at dissent in the early Mormon church and compares it to the American democratic thought that challenged nineteenth-century 'autocratic' regimes. In presenting early Mormon dissent, Cook helps his readers understand similar apostacy that confronts the Mormon church today.

Biographies, male, 19th century (books)
Dissent and dissenters, 19th century
Illinois, places in
Letters
Sources, letters
Diaries and journals, male
Nauvoo, Ill., dissent
Law, William

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