The Persistence of Polygamy: From Joseph Smith's Martyrdom to the First Manifesto, 1844-1890

Independence, MO. John Whitmer Books, 2014. First printing. Hardcover/dust jacket. 372pp. The second of a three-volume series.

In a much anticipated sequel to their first volume, Bringhurst and Foster have assembled an incredible team of contributors to explore the diverse expressions and implications of Mormon polygamy in the later 19th century. Original articles include:

•For “Time and All Eternity”: The Complex Brigham Young Polygamous Household by Jeffery Ogden Johnson
•Brigham Young: Ambivalent Polygamist by George D. Smith

•Brigham Young, African Americans, and Plural Marriage: Schism and the Beginnings of Black Priesthood and Temple Denial by Connell O’ Donovan

•Where Have All of Brigham Young’s Wives Gone?: Latter-day Saint Ambivalence over Its Polygamous Past by Newell G. Bringhurst

•The Wives of the Prophets: The Plural Wives of Brigham Young to Heber J. Grant by Craig L. Foster

•Marriage and Family Relationships among the Strangites, 1844–1856 by Vickie Cleverley Speek

•“Nearly All of the Factions”: The Polygamous Passages of William Smith, Lyman Wight, and Alpheus Cutler by Christopher Blythe

•LDS Joseph vs. RLDS Joseph: The Battle to Control the Public Memory of Joseph Smith by Don Bradley and Brian C. Hales

•Nineteenth-Century Polygamists Who Became RLDS by Lewis M. Weigand

•Polygamy and Women’s Rights: Nineteenth-Century Mormon Female Activism by Andrea G. Radke-Moss

•Prisoners for “The Principle”: The Incarceration of Mormon Plural Wives, 1882–1890 by Lorie Winder Stromberg

•The RLDS Church’s Directive on Baptism of Saora Tribal Polygamists: Canonizing Administrative Policy, 1967–1972 by Richard P. Howard. New. Item #23791
ISBN: 9781934901144

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