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Mormon Experience: A History of the Latter-Day Saints
Review Excerpts: "The best history of the Latter-Day Saints addressed to a general audience now includes a new preface, an epilogue, and a bibliographical afterword. "This is without a doubt the definitive Mormon history." --Library Journal. "Balanced, objective, fair, well-written, interesting, informed. What more could you want? This is something of a minor classic, in my opinion." --Daniel Peterson, 2002 "This book is not as deep or involved as B.H. Roberts seven volume history of the LDS church and its' people. It is a book that casts itself as an introductory one volume history of what is today called Mormon history. I am a Mormon. I have read histories of the LDS church that deal with the subject in a very negative and also positive ways. This book is well balanced and honest in its presentation of the subject. I read this book in order to better understand how all of the pieces of Mormon history fit together. I found what I was looking for. This book does not go into detail about the minutiae of Mormon history, nor does it make assumptions in order to drive a point home. The authors deal with historical research and nothing else. This book is not a history of the Mormon faith, it is a history of the Mormon church and the Mormon people. It does not attempt to convert, but rather to explain. The book is not trying to define what Mormon's believe, but rather who they are, and what the have done." --Josh Divine, 2000 Davis Bitton is a retired University of Utah history professor. After serving a mission in France, he graduated from BYU and then received M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Princeton University. He has taught at the University of Texas and the University of California at Santa Barbara, and served for ten years as assistant Church historian. Dr. Bitton is co-author (with Leonard J. Arrington) of The Mormon Experience: A History of the Latter-day Saints and Saints Without Halos: The Human Side of Mormon History. He compiled A Guide to Mormon Diaries and Autobiographies. His most recent books are Images of the Prophet Joseph Smith and George Q. Cannon: A Biography. Like other people, Davis has different interests. He has served in a bishopric and on the stake high council. He may not hold the world's record for longevity as a gospel doctrine teacher, but this has been his Church calling for many, many years. Insiders will recognize that this implies, or should imply, a certain level of familiarity with the standard works. His interest in early modern Europe resulted in a series of upper-division university courses, papers at conventions, book reviews, articles, and a book entitled The French Nobility in Crisis, 1560-1640. He is an accomplished concert pianist, having studied in Paris under the formidable Madame Dumesnil and in California under the equally demanding Wladimir Kochanski. Title: Mormon Experience: A History of the Latter-Day Saints Retail Price: Your Price: Only $16.95
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Leonard J. Arrington and Davis Bitton, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992, 2nd Edition, 6x9" softbound, 456 pages. 