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Haws, J. B.

The Mormon Image in the American Mind : Fifty Years of Public Perception

New York, NY

Oxford University Press

2013

412

[2014 Mormon Historical Association Winner for Best Book]

Through a fascinating survey of Mormon encounters with the media, including such personalities and events as the Osmonds, the Olympics, the Tabernacle Choir, Evangelical Christians, the Equal Rights Amendment, Sports Illustrated, and presidential candidate Mitt Romney, J.B. Haws reveals the dramatic transformation of the American public's perception of Mormons in the past half-century-- a perception torn between admiration for individual Mormons seen as friendly, hard-working, and family-oriented and ambivalence toward institutional Mormonism allegedly secretive, authoritarian, and weird.

Award Winner
California, Proposition 8 (2008)
Politics, U.S., 20th-21st centuries
Public image, 20th-21st centuries
Romney, George W.
Romney, Mitt

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Combatting the "Too Broad, Too Vague, and Too Non-Definitive, Blanket Approach" to Finding Solutions for Women's Issues : The Essential Barbara B. Smith in Defining the Role of Women in the LDS Church
Elaine Anderson Cannon, Young Women General President : Innovations, Inspiration, and Implementations
Exhibiting Theology : James E. Talmage and Mormon Public Relations, 1915-20
Ezra Taft Benson, Dwight D. Eisenhower and the Emergence of a Conspiracy Culture within the Mormon Church
LDS Church Presidency Years, 1985-1994
Martin Luther King, Civil Rights, and Perceptions of of a "Communist Conspiracy"
Missionaries to the Mormons: NOW's ERA Missionary Project
Mitt Romney and "I Mormoni" : A 2012 Analysis of Italy's Print Media
Mormons and Lineage : The Complicated History of Blacks and Patriarchal Blessings, 1830-2018
Out of Obscurity : Mormonism Since 1945
Preserving a Common History : Property Transactions in Nauvoo between the Latter-day Saint and Reorganized Latter-day Saints (Community of Christ) Churches
Race and the Making of the Mormon People
Race and the Making of the Mormon People
Small Means, Great Things
Sonia's Awakening : White Mormon Expatriates in Africa and the Dismantling of Mormonism's Racial Consensus, 1852-1978

The Mormon Jesus : A Biography
The Oxford Handbook of Mormonism
We Gather Together
Where the World, Babel, and Zion Meet : Redefining the Mormon People at the 1964-65 Mormon Pavilion
Whiteness in Modern Latter-day Saint History and Culture
Women and Gender

"A P.O. Box and a Desire to Witness for Jesus" : Identity and Mission in the Ex-Mormons for Jesus/Saints Alive in Jesus, 1975-90
"Lonely Bones" : Leadership and Utah War Violence
"There Is Room for Both" : Mormon Cinema and the Paradoxes of Mormon Culture
'Do Not Lecture the Brethren' : Stewart L. Udall's Pro-Civil Rights Stance, 1967
A Different God? Mitt Romney, the Religious Right, and the Mormon Question
A Different Jesus? : The Christ of the Latter-day Saints
A History of Mormon Cinema
A Light Unto the World
A Light unto the World
A Peculiar People : Anti-Mormonism and the Making of Religion in Nineteenth-Century America
A Personal Odyssey : My Encounter with Mormon History
A Time for Healing : Official Declaration 2
Adventures of a Church Historian
America's Saints : The Rise of Mormon Power
American Grace : How Religion Divides and Unites Us
An Examination of the Mormon Doctrine of Creation and a Defense of Creation ex nihilo
Anti-Mormon Publications
Believing History : Latter-day Saints Essays
Black and Mormon
Brigham Young University : A House of Faith
Brigham Young University : A School of Destiny
By the Hand of Mormon : The American Scripture that Launched a New World Religion
Carthage Conspiracy : The Trial of the Accused Assassins of Joseph Smith
Center and Periphery : Mormons and American Culture in Tony Kushner's Angels in America
Conservative pluralists : the cultural politics of Mormon-evangelical dialogue in the United States at the turn of the twenty-first century


Contemporary Mormonism : Latter-day Saints in Modern America
Dancing with the Devil : The Making of the Mormon-Republican Pact
David O. McKay : Beloved Prophet
David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism
Deseret News Church Almanac
Early Mormon Documents : Volume II
Early Mormonism and the Magic World View
Encyclopedia of Latter-day Saint History
Exhibiting Mormonism : The Latter-day Saints and the 1893 Chicago World's Fair
Ezra Taft Benson : A Biography
Fawn McKay Brodie : Dissident Historian and Quintessential Critic of Mormondom
Finding an Audience, Paying the Bills : Competing Business Models in Mormon Cinema
Fired by Conscience : The 'Black 14' Incident at the University of Wyoming and Black Protest in the Western Athletic Conference, 1968-70
George Romney : Mormon in Politics
George Romney in 1968 : From Front-Runner to Drop-Out, an Analysis of Cause
Go Forward with Faith : The Biography of Gordon B. Hinckley
Going My Way : An Interview with Newsweek's Kenneth Woodward
Health Practices and Cancer Mortality among Active California Mormons
Health Practices and Mortality among Active California Mormons
Highlights in the Life of President David O. McKay
Home Memories of President David O. McKay
How Americans View Mormonism : Seven Steps to Improve Our Image
Jerusalem Center for Near Eastern Studies
Jesus Christ, Eternal God : Heavenly Flesh and the Metaphysics of Matter
Jew and Mormon : Historic Group Relations and Religious Outlook
Joseph Smith : Rough Stone Rolling
Joseph Smith and Modern Mormonism : Orthodoxy, Neoorthodoxy, Tension, and Tradition
LDS Perspectives on the Dead Sea Scrolls
Latter-day Saint Social Life : Social Research on the LDS Church and its Members
Latter-day Saints in Popular National Periodicals, 1970-1981
Lengthen Your Stride : The Presidency of Spencer W. Kimball
Manuscript Found : The Complete Original 'Spaulding Manuscript' by Solomon Spaulding
Marketing the Mormon Image : An Interview with Wendell J. Ashton
Massacre at Mountain Meadows : An American Tragedy
Mormon America : The Power and the Promise
Mormon History
Mormon Scholarship, Apologetics, and Evangelical Neglect : Losing the Battle and Not Knowing It?
Mormon and Asian American Model Minority Discourses in the News and Popular Magazines
Mormonism : A Very Short Introduction
Mormonism : The Story of a New Religious Tradition
Mormonism Unvailed : Or, a Faithful Account of That Singular Imposition and Delusion From Its Rise to the Present Time
Mormonism and Other Faiths
Mormonism and the American Experience
Mormonism and the Moral Majority Make Strange Bedfellows? An Exploratory Critique
Mormonism and the Negro : Faith, Folklore, and Civil Rights
Mormonism and the New Christian Right : An Emerging Coalition?
Mormonism and the Periodical Press : A Change is Underway
Mormonism in National Periodicals
Mormonism in National Periodicals, 1961-70
Mormonism in Transition : A History of the Latter-day Saints, 1890-1930
Mormonism in the Nineteen-Seventies : The Popular Perception
Mormonism's Negro Doctrine : An Historical Overview
Mormonism's Negro Policy : Social and Historical Origins
Mormonism's Remarkable History : A Conversation with Max H. Parkin
Mormons and Jews : Early Mormon Theologies of Israel
Mormons and Mormonism : An Introduction to an American World Religion
Mormons and Social Distance Multi-dimensional Analysis
Mormons and Their Historians
Mormons and the Media, 1898-2003 : A Selected, Annotated, and Indexed Bibliography (With Suggestions for Future Research)
My Father, David O. McKay
Nauvoo Charter
Neither White nor Black : Mormon Scholars Confront the Race Issue in a Universal Church
Nobody Knows : The Untold Story of Black Mormons-Script
Old Wine in New Bottles : The Story behind Fundamentalist Anti-Mormonism
On Being a Mormon Historian (and its Aftermath)
On the Road with Joseph Smith : An Author's Diary
On the Trail of the Twentieth-Century Mormon Outmigration
Peculiar Portrayals : Mormons on the Page, Stage, and Screen
Pedestals and Podiums : Utah Women, Religious Authority, and Equal Rights
People of Paradox : A History of Mormon Culture
Pioneers in Twentieth Century Mormon Media : Oral Histories of Latter-day Saint Electronic and Public Relations Professionals
Presidents and Prophets : The Story of America's President and the LDS church
Pure Religion : The Story of Church Welfare since 1930
Quest for Empire : The Political Kingdom of God and the Council of Fifty in Mormon History
Religion in the Modern American West
Revelation, Reason, and Faith : Essays in Honor of Truman G. Madsen
Reviling and Revering the Mormons : Defining American Values, 1890-2008
Richard Lyman Bushman, the Story of Joseph Smith and Mormonism, and the New Mormon History
Romney, George
Runaway Officials
Salamander : The Story of the Mormon Forgery Murders
Sealed in a Book : Preliminary Observations on the Newly Found 'Anthon Transcript'
Selected Newspaper Articles on Mormons and Mormonism Published during 1978
Separate but Equal? Black Branches, Genesis Groups, or Integrated Wards?
Sojourner in the Promised Land : Forty years among the Mormons
Sources of Strain in Mormon History Reconsidered
Spencer W. Kimball : Twelfth President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Spencer W. Kimball and the Revelation on Priesthood
Tabernacle Choir
Temples to Dot the Earth
Ten Years in Camelot : A Personal Memoir
Tensions in David O. Mckay's First Presidencies
The 1968 Presidential Decline of George Romney : Mormonism or Politics?
The Book of Mormon Girl : A Memoir of an American Faith
The Bruce R. McConkie Story : Reflections of a Son by Joseph Fielding McConkie
The Burned-Over District : The Social and Intellectual History of Enthusiastic Religion in Western New York, 1800-1850
The Changing Image of Mormonism in Periodical Literature
The Church and the Negro : A Discussion of Mormons, Negroes and the Priesthood
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in National Periodicals, 1991-2000
The Devil Makers : Contemporary Evangelical Fundamentalist Anti-Mormonism
The Image of Blacks Within Mormonism as Presented in the Church News (1978-1988)
The LDS Intellectual Community and Church Leadership : A Contemporary Chronology
The Latter-Day Saint Experience in America
The Latter-day Saint Century
The Miracle of the Mormon Pavilion : The Church at the 1964-65 New York World's Fair
The Mormon Corporate Empire
The Mormon Corridor : Utah and Idaho
The Mormon Culture of Salvation : Force, Grace, and Glory
The Mormon Establishment
The Mormon Experience : A History of the Latter-day Saints
The Mormon Hierarchy : Extensions of Power
The Mormon Hierarchy and the MX
The Mormon History Association's Tanner Lectures : The First Twenty Years
The Mormon Menace : Violence and Anti-Mormonism in the Postbellum South
The Mormon Murders : A True Story of Greed, Forgery, Deceit, and Death
The Mormon Pavilion : Mainstreaming the Saints at the New York World's Fair, 1964-65
The Mormon People :
The Making of an American Faith
The Mormon Quest for the Presidency
The Mormon Quest for the Presidency : From Joseph Smith to Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman
The Mormons
The Mormons
The Mountain Meadows Massacre
The Odyssey of Sonia Johnson
The Politics of American Religious Identity : The Seating of Senator Reed Smoot, Mormon Apostle
The Refiner's Fire : The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644-1844
The Rise of Mormonism
The Story of the Latter-day Saints
The Study of Mormonism : A Growing Interest in Academia
The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball
The Truth about 'The Godmakers'
The Viper on the Hearth : Mormons, Myths, and the Construction of Heresy
The Worlds of Joseph Smith : A Bicentennial Conference at the Library of Congress
Those Amazing Mormons' : The Media's Construction of Latter-day Saints as a Model Minority
Through a Glass Darkly : Mormons as Perceived by Critics' Reviews of Tony Kushner's Angels in America
Two Integrities : An Address to the Crisis in Mormon Historiography
Under the Banner of Heaven : A Story of Violent Faith
Unjustifiable Denial of Priesthood to Black Mormons
Unmasking Another Hofmann Forgery
Utah : A People's History
Victims : The LDS Church and the Mark Hofmann Case
Visitors' Centers
When the Press Meets the Prophet
Why No Revolts at BYU? The Silent Language of the Mormon World-view and Patriotism at Brigham Young University
World's Fairs
Writing 'Mormonism's Negro Doctrine : An Historical Overview' (1973) : Context and Reflections, 1998