David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism
"This phenomenal work is much more than the life story of David O. McKay, a  much-beloved president/prophet of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day  Saints. Based on a wide array of sources heretofore unavailable to scholars, it  is a remarkable combination of biographical narrative and historical analysis  that is destined to function as a scaffolding on which to hang the still  virtually untold story of the Latter-day Saints in the middle of the twentieth  century. Bravo to the authors and to the University of Utah Press for making it  available to everyone interested in modern Mormonism."—Jan Shipps,  professor emerita of history and religious studies at Indiana University Purdue  University Indianapolis and author ofSojourner in the Promised Land: Forty  Years among the Mormons"This book is important because it casts an honest and loving light on the  workings of the LDS Church and most importantly on one of the church’s most  beloved leaders."—Chase Peterson, president emeritus, University of  Utah"This book will be invaluable to any student of LDS Church history wanting to  know the factors behind the great changes that took place in the church over the  past half-century."—J. Alan Blodget, former CFO, the Church of Jesus  Christ of Latter-day Saints