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Despotism and Differential Reproduction: A Darwinian View of History

2 reviews
Laura Betzig

Aldine Transaction, 1986

a slim, hard hitting classic.
Moulay Ismail ibn Sharif, the second ruler of the Moroccan Alaouite dynasty, is said to have fathered 888 children. Not so surprising is it. Powerful men through out human history have had access to many nubile females, and they have used this access to reproduce like lemmings. Julius Caesar was insatiable in his lust, Alexander took many wives, Charlemagne had at least four, and god knows ...

Five Star First Edition Westerns - Riders of the Purple Sage (Five Star First Edition Westerns)

4 reviews
Zane Grey

Five Star, 2005

Classic western story
This is the only western I've ever read; I'm mostly into classical literature, science writing, and non-fiction, but I asked friends for a book rec in the field, and they said read this one and the two Thomas Berger novels about Little Big Man. The novel is interesting in that it's not a stereotypical western story. The main character is a woman who owns a large cattle ranch and is basically ...

His Favorite Wife: Trapped in Polygamy

75 reviews
Susan Ray Schmidt

Kassidy Lane Publishing LLC, 2006

real polygamy story
this was a real story, moving and touching and definitely gave insight into why these woman accept this way of life in the first place. it sure makes you wonder where the stories come from where you see the sister wives trying to make us beleive its an easy way of life...

Justice Denied: What America Must Do to Protect its Children

7 reviews
Marci A. Hamilton

Cambridge University Press, 2008

Must read...the painful truth
Children had almost no personal rights through the middle ages. They were often punished as adults but had less perceived value than chattel. In our era we pride ourselves on our enlightened approach to childens' rights and welfare. If you believe we are truly enlightened this book will shatter that belief. Professor Hamilton describes the legal quirk whereby victims of child abuse are denied ...

The Polygamists: A History of Colorado City, Arizona

2 reviews
Benjamin G. Bistline

Agreka Books, 2004

This book is so accurate!
I found this book very enlightening. I learned a lot about a group of people I knew little about. I would recommend this book to anyone wanting to know the truth about the society in Colorado City/Hildale. The author is not interested in sensationalism, but in reporting the truth. I moved to an area just south of these twin towns - found the people interesting and the book helps me to understand ...

Don't You Marry the Mormon Boys

3 reviews
Janet Kay Jensen

Bonneville Books, 2007

One of the best books I've ever read
This book is really not what I usually read. I don't remember how I stumbled onto it, but I'm so glad I did. I won't give the plot away, but here are a few details. It's a story of two families, two divergent paths of a religion with common roots (told with much respect and dignity for both), a story of love, and the best family story ever. It has lots of humor in it, the characters are memorable ...

Tell it All: A Woman's Life in Polygamy

3 reviews
Fanny Stenhouse, Harriet Beecher Stowe

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2003

A woman tell it all
Once in a long while you will find a book so compelling you can not lay it down and this is such a book! I felt like I was pulled into the story and suffered with Fanny Stenhouse as she fought the good fight against the Mormon Church and her enemies who wanted to shut her up.. This was not an off shoot of the Mormon Church but the original Church and it is a chilling example of an organization ...

Doing The Works of Abraham: Mormon Polygamy : Its Origin, Practice, and Demise (Kingdom in the West : the ...

1 review

Arthur H. Clark Company, 2007

An impressive work of meticulous scholarship
The ninth volume of The Arthur H. Clark Company 'Kingdom in the West: the Mormons and the American Frontier' series, "Doing The Works Of Abraham: Mormon Polygamy, Its Origin, Practice, And Demise" by academician and Mormon historian B. Carmon Hardy (Professor Emeritus of History at California State University, Fullerton) is a history of the peculiar theological doctrine of 'Celestial Marriage' ...

Voices in Harmony: Contemporary Women Celebrate Plural Marriage

5 reviews
Mary Batchelor, Marianne Watson, ...

Cedar Fort, 2000

Some thoughts after reading an unusual & interesting book
Voices in Harmony is a book which looks at Mormon plural marriage from the point of view of the women involved. It is very beautifully written and insightful. At times it is very moving, for example when terrifying episodes of persecution (of polygamists) are described. Yet they remain a very spiritual, very religious people, and that undoubtedly is a strength for them in this unusual domestic ...

Banking on Heaven: Polygamy in the Heartland of the American West (DVD)

2 reviews
Dot Reidelbach, Laurie Allen

BankingOnHeaven.com, 2007

The REAL Inside Story
Finally, the real story about the polygamists in Colorado City, AZ. This new documentary, the only film to get inside the cult, features, among others, Carolyn Jessop. Carolyn's book, "Escape", just hit the NYT Bestseller list. "Banking on Heaven" reinforces the horrors Ms. Jessop so clearly describes. "Banking on Heaven" will shock and sicken the viewer. How can it be possible to have the ...

Religion and Sexuality: The Shakers, the Mormons, and the Oneida Community

1 review
Lawrence Foster

University of Illinois Press, 1984

What do the Mormons, the Shakers, and the Oneida Perfectionists have in common?
The answer is quite a lot, according to historian Lawrence Foster, a member of the history faculty at Georgia Tech, a former president of the Mormon History Association, and a longstanding friend and colleague in the study of the Mormon past. Foster begins his discussion of the marriage practices of these three groups by focusing on the larger milieu of antebellum American society. During that ...

Polygamy on the Pedernales: Lyman Wight's Mormon Villages in Antebellum Texas 1845-1858

1 review
Melvin C Johnson

Utah State University Press, 2006

The true history of a Mormon splinter group, led by maverick Mormon apostle Lyman Wight
Polygamy On The Pedernales: Lyman Wight's Mormon Villages in Antebellum Texas, 1845 to 1858 by Melvin C. Johnson (teaches history and English at Angelina College in Lufkin, Texas) is the true history of a Mormon splinter group, led by maverick Mormon apostle Lyman Wight. After Joseph Smith Jr.'s murder in 1844, Wight led his church to establish a Texas colony; his antagonism with Brigham Young ...

Man Sharing: Dilemma or Choice

1 review
Audrey B. Chapman

Kayode Publications, 1991

A Radical way of viewing relationships
Audrey Chapman took a great deal of heat for some of the suggestions in this book. While the one man/one woman monogamous marriage is the ideal, we live in a less than ideal world. Men are attracted to more than one woman and vice versa. Many people go through several marriages trying to find the ideal that does not exist. This book encourages all of us to look at relationships differently.

Prostitution, Polygamy, and Power: Salt Lake City, 1847-1918

1 review
Jeffrey Nichols

University of Illinois Press, 2008

One for the Sinners
The richness and diversity of Utah history tends to be obscured by Mormon history. So much energy is expended canonizing Utah's saints that few resources remain for celebrating and preserving the capricious, ironic, and improvisatory. ("[In Utah] people talk only of the Prophet, hogs, and Fords," cracked Bernard DeVoto in 1926.) In New York City, for example, A. J. Liebling and Joseph Mitchell ...

Holy Murder: Polygamy's Blood

1 review
James R. Spencer

Spencer Books, 2004

The truth often shocks, yet must be told
Spencer gives an accurately chilling account of the mindset and the twisted culture of contemporary Mormon polygamy. Too often the topic is sugar coated so the outsider can swallow all that occurs with in the secret community of oppression and abuse. The characters and the backdrop are very close to the truth. Spenceer spells out in detail the real lives of so many trapped in polygamous ...

An Ordered Love: Sex Roles and Sexuality in Victorian Utopias--The Shakers, the Mormons, and the Oneida ...

1 review
Louis J. Kern

The University of North Carolina Press, 1981

brilliant historical synthesis
Dr. Kern is one of the foremost intellectual historians in matters concerning alternative societies. I highly recommend this book. It is meticulously researched and highly informative. One should check out many of his historical/cultural articles for more of his work.

Polygamist's wife

1 review
Melissa Merrill

Olympus Pub. Co, 1975

Gut wrenching!
Once I opened the cover, I couldn't put the book down! As a transplant to Utah, I was fascinated with some of the polygamist history that has continued to thrive in some Utah cultures. The first hand account in this book made the reading all the more fascinating...& you find yourself on the edge of your seat...anxious to know the outcome!

An Evaluation of Mormonism in 1882

1 review
H. W Thomas

Reproduced from the Saints' Herald/Chicago Tribune, 1957

From the foreword:
Seventy or eighty years ago the government of the United States was vigorously prosecuting polygamists in Utah and elsewhere inder the Edmunds-Tucker Act. Much bitterness of spirit was in evidence because of the 'persecution', as characterized by the Mormon leaders and alleged lawbreakers, and the public more or less inflamed likewise did some illogical thinking. We recently discovered a ...

Polygamy, Bigamy and Human Rights Law

1 review
Samuel Chapman

Xlibris Corporation, 2001

A word from the author
In October 2000, as the Human Rights Act came into effect in Britain, former Home Secretary Michael Howard voiced concerns about groups who would seek to use the Act to justify their right to be polygamous. This book seeks to explore the question as to how the law came to be the way it is and whether the new legislation could have the impact that these groups desire. This question is of ...

The Mormon Question: Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America

1 review
Sarah Barringer Gordon

The University of North Carolina Press, 2002

great, scholarly
i got this book for a legal history research paper on the free exercise clause. it was easy to read, interesting, and well cited. i highly reccomend it.

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