Lds biographies
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For my nightly and Sunday reading, I&#;ve recently decided to read academic biographies of Latter-day Saints. I&#;ve now finished Ron Walker&#;s Qualities That Count: Heber J. Grant as Businessman, Missionary, and Apostle, Arrington&#;s Brigham Young: American Moses, Brooks&#; John D. Lee: Zealot, Pioneer, Builder, Scapegoat, Scott R. Christensen&#;s Sagwitch: Shoshone Chieftan, Mormon Elder, , and I&#;m currently working through Allen&#;s No Toil Nor Labor Fear: The Story of William Clayton. While I&#;ve enjoyed all of them, I think Allen&#;s is an extraordinary piece of scholarship, solidly researched and engagingly written. Aside from Bushman and Prince&#;s bios of JS and DOM, which I assume most JI readers are familiar with, what do y&#;all think are the &#;best LDS biographies&#;? For my purposes, I&#;m interested in works written by academic historians that are both well researched and written, rather than more devotional examples like George Q. Cannon&#;s JS bio.
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“ Features New Biographies of Living Apostles,” Ensign, Apr. , 77–78
New biographies of members of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles have been published on , under the section titled “Meet today’s prophets and apostles.”
The first biography to be featured on Prophets and Apostles Speak Today was that of President Boyd K. Packer, President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. One biography has been added each week since, in order of the Apostles’ seniority, and will continue to be added until the full quorum is represented.
Biographies of the members of the First Presidency—President Thomas S. Monson, First Counselor Henry B. Eyring, and Second Counselor Dieter F. Uchtdorf—have been available on the site since October
“Learning about their childhood, student years, family life, and careers prior to their calls to the apostleship will help us see the hand of the Lord in their lives and will serve as another witness of how He calls and magnifies ordinary men and women to serve in the kingdom,” said Elder Paul B. Pieper of the Seventy, who serves as the Executive Director of the Curriculum Department.
The biographies will include information and stories of each leader’s life, but most of all, they will show how the Lord prepared them to serve. Accompanying photographs—som
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Latter-day Saint Account Encyclopedia
by Apostle Jenson
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Volumes: 4
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ISBN: (Hardcover)