num_pages: 560
description: From the preface: "Brigham Young was the supreme American paradox, not because he contained elements foreign to American soil but because he united them--the business genius of a Rockefeller with the spiritual sensitivities of an Emerson, the lusty enjoyments of the pleasures of good living with the tenderness of a Florence Nightingale. He was not merely an entrepreneur with a shared vision of America as the Promised Land; he was a prophet with visions of his own and he built beyond himself."
language: English
title: Brigham Young: American Moses
titlecomplete: Brigham Young: American Moses
characters: Brigham Young
genres: American, Church, History, Religion, Lds, Church History, Biography Memoir, Biography, Mormonism, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 514
awards: awardedAt: 473414400000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Biography/Autobiography, awardedAt: 410256000000
name: Evans Biography Award
publisher: University of Illinois Press