The Mormon Quest For The Presidency - Softcover

Newell G. Bringhurst; Craig L. Foster

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9781934901113: The Mormon Quest For The Presidency

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ISBN 10: 1934901113 ISBN 13: 9781934901113

Publisher: John Whitmer Books, 2008

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Ten Mormons who ran for president... and why they lost. Is America ready for a Mormon president? In the wake of Mitt Romney's failure to capture the Republican nomination, many are asking the degree to which religion played a role. Romney is only the latest in a long series of unsuccessful Mormon presidential candidates stretching back more than 150 years. In the 20th century, eight other Mormons have run for the presidency, including the major candidacies of George Romney in 1968, Morris "Mo" Udall in 1976, and Orrin Hatch in 2000. The first Mormon candidate was Joseph Smith, the founding prophet of Mormonism, who set out to capture the White House in 1844. Smith made history by being the first clergyman to run for president, as well as the first candidate to be assassinated during his campaign.

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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.

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