Item Detail
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31132
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English
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In Search of Jason Mack
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Journal of Mormon History
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2020
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46
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1
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Champaign, Illinois
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University of Illinois Press
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1-25
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"Historians of the Joseph Smith story have followed his mother’s
lead in highlighting the precedent set by his uncle Jason for an
experiment in communalism and as a religious seeker in whom the
New Testament gift of healing by prayer was wonderfully restored. They have also left whole decades of Mack’s life unexamined. Only
Richard Anderson’s patient exploration of the Prophet’s grandparentage takes part of the story a level deeper.2 As with Anderson’s
work, the threads of Mack’s biography drawn together here do not
corroborate the more remarkable claims in his sister’s Biographical
Sketches. Neither do they cast special doubt on them. What they offer
are fresh starting points for understanding an intriguing character
at the margin of every serious account of Mormon beginnings."