Much Ado About Mormons (2011)

Has any religious community been the subject of more curiosity controversy or misunderstanding than the Latterday Saints From the time pioneers settled the Salt Lake valley Mormon culture has drawn the public eye and colored the public record for better or for worse This landmark volume explores nineteenth twentieth and twentyfirstcentury Mormon society through the perspectives of journalists novelists travel writers presidents and other wellknown public figures including such varied personages as Susan B Anthony Buffalo Bill Cody Mark Twain Charles Dickens Sir Arthur Conan Doyle President John F Kennedy and more Some of the accounts are humorous some flattering some exaggerated some insightful This engaging companion to the Much Ado About Mormons book entertainingly illustrates outsider views of a stillpeculiar people