| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 34.2

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The Texas Republic and the Mormon Kingdom of God. By Michael Scott Van Wagenen. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2002. xiii + 117 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $18.95.)

If events at theocratic Nauvoo in 1844 did not seem odd to its Mormon citizens, they surely set the teeth of that city-state's neighbors on edge. First, the professed prophet, Joseph Smith, declared his candidacy for U. S. president. Next, he created the ultra-secret Council of Fifty, the ruling body of the Kingdom of God on earth before and after Christ's return, and had himself ordained "Prophet, Priest and King." Then, he asked Congress to give him power to raise an armed force many times larger than the U. S. Army, or the one he already commanded. And he proclaimed that he would set up, by revelation, the kingdom envisioned by the prophet Daniel and that he would "revolutionize the whole world" (quoted in Smith's History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Nauvoo, IL, 1844, Vol. 6, 365). . . .

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