The Mormon Quest for the Presidency: From Joseph Smith to Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman - Softcover

Bringhurst, Newell G.; Foster, Craig L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1934901091 ISBN 13: 9781934901090

Publisher: John Whitmer Books, 2011

Synopsis

Including Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman, eleven Mormons have sought the highest office in the United States. Newell G. Bringhurst and Craig L. Foster bring their stories to life as the attempt to answer the question, "Is America Ready for a Mormon President?"

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About the Author:

Newell G. Bringhurst and Craig L. Foster have been referred to as the “odd couple” of Mormon studies. Bringhurst, a cultural Mormon and a liberal Democrat, stands in stark contrast to Foster, an active Latter-day Saint and a conservative Republican. Their political views aside, both Bringhurst and Foster are trained historians who have sought to treat the subjects of this book in a scholarly, objective manner. Bringhurst, an emeritus professor of history and political science at the College of the Sequoias in Visalia, California, is the author/editor of eight previously published books. The most recent was Scattering of the Saints: Schism within Mormonism (2007), which he co-edited with John C. Hamer. Bringhurst has served as president of both the Mormon History Association (1999-2000) and the John Whitmer Historical Association (2005-06). Foster, a research specialist in the LDS Church’s Family History Library, is the author of Penny Tracts and Polemics: A Critical Analysis of Anti-Mormon Pamphleteering in Great Britain (1837-1860) and of A Different God?: Mitt Romney’s Presidential Campaign, the Religious Right, and the Mormon Question. Foster served as co–executive secretary of the Mormon History Association from 1995 to 2001.

About this edition

• Publisher: John Whitmer Books
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1934901091
• ISBN 13: 9781934901090
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 398