John Whitmer Historical Association Best Edited Book of the Year
The first serious attempt to analyze the careers of converts who later
left the Mormon church, this book contains selections about 18
Mormon dissenters--David Whitmer, Fawn Brodie, and
Sonia Johnson, among them--contributed by Richard N. Holzapfel, John
S. McCormick, Kenneth M. Godfrey, William D. Russell, Dan Vogel, Jessie L. Embry, and many others.
Table of Contents
Foreword
By Leonard J. Arrington
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Mormonism and the Dynamics of Dissent
By Roger D. Launius, Linda Thatcher
1. David Whitmer: Faithful Dissenter, Witness Apart
By Ronald E. Romig
2. "Such Republicanism as This": John Corrill's Rejection of
Prophetic Rule
By Kenneth H. Winn
3. William E. McLellin: "Mormonism's Stormy Petrel"
By Richard P. Howard
4. The Fruit of the Branch: Francis Gladden Bishop and His Culture
of Dissent
By Richard L. Saunders
5. James Colin Brewster: The Boy Prophet Who Challenged
Mormon Authority
By Dan Vogel
6. William B. Smith: "A Wart on the Ecclesiastical Tree"
By Paul M. Edwards
7. The Old Fox: Alpheus Cutler
By Danny L. Jorgensen
8. Stephen Post: From Believer to Dissenter to Heretic
By M. Guy Bishop
9. The Flight of the Doves from Utah Mormonism to California
Morrisitism: The Saga of James and George Dove
By Richard Neitzel Holzapfel
10. Henry W. Lawrence: A Life in Dissent
By John S. McCormick, John R. Sillito
11. Frank J. Cannon: Declension in the Mormon Kingdom
By Kenneth M. Godfrey
12. Joseph W. Musser: Dissenter or Fearless Crusader for Truth?
By Martha Sonntag Bradley
13. Fawn McKay Brodie: Dissident Historian and Quintessential
Critic of Mormondom
By Newell G. Bringhurst
14. Maurine Whipple: The Quiet Dissenter
By Jessie L. Embry
15. Richard Price: Leading Publicist of the Reorganized Church's
Schismatics
By William D. Russell
16. Apostate Believers: Jerald and Sandra Tanner's Encounter with
Mormon History
By Lawrence Foster
17. Sonia Johnson: Mormonism's Feminist Heretic
By Alice Allred Pottmyer
Contributors
Index