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Thunder From the Right : Ezra Taft Benson in Mormonism and Politics
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Urbana, IL
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University of Illinois Press
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"The book is divided into two sections, with each essay exploring a critical aspect of Benson’s life and career. Part I examines Benson’s politics and Cold War anxieties. Brian Cannon evaluates the apostle’s tenure as the agricul-tural secretary in the Eisenhower administration, in particular, how new transformations in technology affected his farm policies and, more critically, how they divided the American public. Gary Bergera critically appraises a statement Benson made about Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, in which he argues that Benson deliberately embellished Khrushchev’s words to coun-ter critics who found the apostle’s public anticommunism polarizing. Robert Goldberg situates Benson within a conservative grassroots movement among Latter-day Saints and argues that Benson was responsible for building a Republican coalition that reshaped Mormon politics. Newell Bringhurst explores Benson’s perennial interest in running for the U.S. presidency, an interest stoked by admiring Latter-day Saints who pined to see the Mormon apostle elected. Matthew Harris evaluates Benson’s opposition to the civil rights movement—specifically why he believed that Martin Luther King was a communist agent and sympathizer. Harris contends that Benson’s anti–civil rights views posed significant challenges for the church when Benson became the church president in 1985.Part II examines Benson’s religious teachings, both as an apostle and as the LDS church president. Matthew Bowman homes in on Benson and “free agency,” explaining how the Mormon apostle-president weaved this critical LDS teaching into a larger narrative about freedom, government, and liberty during the Cold War. Andrea Radke-Moss explores Benson’s views on women and gender, demonstrating the ways in which the apostle’s teachings on these critical topics were similar to and different from his contemporaries. J. B. Haws concludes the volume assessing Benson’s church presidency. He discusses Benson’s signature teachings on the Book of Mormon, missionary work, and family life, while at the same time acknowledging the many chal-lenges Benson faced during his nine-year tenure as president of the Mormon church.It is my hope that this book will offer a fresh and stimulating retrospective assessment of Ezra Taft Benson’s life and legacy, particularly his considerable accomplishments as a public servant, Cold War figure, and religious leader in the half century after World War II."
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An Abundant Life : The Memoirs of Hugh B. Brown
And the Saints Go Marching On : The New Mormon Challenge for World Mission, Apologetics, and Theology
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"Blindside" : Utah on the Eve of Brown v. Board of Education
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Ezra Taft Benson and the Politics of Agriculture : The Eisenhower Years, 1953-1961
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Ezra Taft Benson : Statesman, Patriot, Prophet of God
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In this Time of Crisis : The Race-Based Anti-BYU Athletic Protests of 1968-1971
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Mormon Enigma : Emma Hale Smith
Mormon Feminism : Essential Writings
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Mormon Lives : A Year in the Elkton Ward
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Mormon Neo-Orthodoxy : A Crisis Theology
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Mormon Women Have Their Say : Essays from the Claremont Oral History Collection
Neither White nor Black : Mormon Scholars Confront the Race Issue in a Universal Church
Nobody Knows : The Untold Story of Black Mormons-Script
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Pedestals and Podiums : Utah Women, Religious Authority, and Equal Rights
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Sisters in Spirit : Mormon Women in Historical and Cultural Perspective
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Sports in Zion : Mormon Recreation, 1890-1940
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The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon in the Twentieth Century
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The Devil Makers : Contemporary Evangelical Fundamentalist Anti-Mormonism
The LDS Intellectual Community and Church Leadership : A Contemporary Chronology
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The Mormon Church and Blacks : A Documentary History
The Mormon Hierarchy : Extensions of Power
The Mormon Image in the American Mind : Fifty Years of Public Perception
The Mormon People: The Making of an American Faith
The Mormon Quest for the Presidency
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The New Mormon Challenge : Responding to the Latest Defenses of a Fast-Growing Movement
The Persistence of Polygamy :
Fundamentalist Mormon Polygamy from 1890 to the Present
The Refiner's Fire : The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644-1844
The Words of Joseph Smith : The Contemporary Accounts of the Nauvoo Discourses of the Prophet Joseph
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To the Rescue : The Biography of Thomas S. Monson
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