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Latter Day Saints: A Study of the Mormons in the Light of Economic Conditions

Ruth and Reginald Wright Kauffman; John S. McCormick and John R. Sillito (Introduction). Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994, 5.5x8" softbound, 363 pages.

Originally published in 1912 in England, this work by American journalists Ruth Kauffman and Reginald Wright Kauffman reflects their belief as Marxists that the Mormon church was a victim of a capatalistic society.

The Kauffmans' intention in writing The Latter Day Saints was to summarizethe widespread anti-Mormon literature that appeared in the American press during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. They took it as a given that economic forces were primary in society and that capitalism was an unethical system of compulsion and domination. Their exploration of how the true nature of a capitalistic system was revealed in its impact on the history of Mormonism brought an unprecedented perspective to bear on the church and the nature of American society during that period. An introduction by John S. McCormick and John R. Sillito places the book in historical context and provides biographical details about the Kauffmans.

John S. McCormick, an associate professor of history at Salt Lake Community College, is the coauthor of Saltair. John R. Sillito, archivist and associate professor of libraries at Weber State University, Ogden, Utah is the editor of The Wilderness of Faith: Essays in Contemporary Mormon Thought.

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