Product: The 19th Wife (2010)
Rating: 4.0
Brigham Young's Sick Obsession
This book was a very thorough "fictionalized" presentation of a so-called religious faith based on polygamy.The story moves from the horrors of child abandonment (young boys left by the side of a road to fend for themselves because they pose a threat for elder men) in current America to the early days of a cult dictator who ruled with an iron fist while pretending to care for the women who kept his fiefdom functioning. this book points out that our laws are unable to reach out and stop this medieval Mideast type lifestyle that still flourishes in our United States. I came away understanding that Brigham Young University is named after a serial rapist!