David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism
- ISBN-10
- 0874808227
- ISBN-13
- 9780874808223
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 490
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Utah Press
- Authors
- Gregory A. Prince, William Robert Wright
Description
Focuses primarily on the years of McKay's presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints during some of the most turbulent times in American and world history.
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