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English
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On Writing Mormon History, 1972-95 : From the Diaries and Memoirs of D. Michael Quinn
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Writing Mormon History : Historians and Their Books
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Salt Lake City, Utah
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Signature Books
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"At the end of January 1972, Leonard J. Arrington invited twenty-seven-year-old D. Michael Quinn, a graduate student at the University of Utah, to join the newly forming staff of the official historian of the LDS Church. Forty-eight years later, D. Michael Quinn is the author of some one hundred publications—articles, essays, reviews, etc.—eight books, and three Internet-based monographs. Because Quinn examined little-known and/or controversial aspects of Mormonism, even admirers have sometimes described his work as “polarizing.” At my urging, Quinn consented to the publication of a chronology of his attitudes about his works. What follows are excerpts from Quinn’s daily diaries (to 1980) and from his memoirs written periodically from 1988 to 2009 that track somewhat his development as an LDS historian and some of his publications." [Editor]