Item Detail
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27970
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English
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Notes on Mormon Polygamy
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Mormonism and American Culture
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New York, NY
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Harper & Row
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101-111
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In the minds of most American in the 19th century, polygamy was the defining doctrine of Mormonism, even though the practice in the LDS Church only lasted for 65 years. This chapter focuses on the impact that the practice had on family life, concluding that "it was no nearly so great as Mormons hoped and non-Mormons feared."