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Book Review
| The Collected Leonard J. Arrington Mormon History Lectures. Compiled by Special Collections & Archives, Utah State University Libraries. (Logan: Utah State University Press, 2004. ix + 283 pp. Illustrations, notes. $29.95.)
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In 1995, Utah State University launched a lecture series unique in that it was based on the donation of Leonard J. Arrington's lifetime accumulation of personal and professional papers. Mormonism's preeminent contemporary historian at the time of his death in 1999, Arrington himself gave the first lecture. Published as pamphlets, his and the nine that followed have now been produced in an attractive compilation. One achievement of this collection is that it demonstrates that rather than being single voices heard in separate statements, these lectures are actually a conversation among scholars employing diverse historiographical methodologies to study a variety of topics important to western and Mormon history. |
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Leonard J. Arrington set broad parameters for the series with his inaugural characterization of the relationship between faith and intellect as a partnership, rather than competition. Two essays have Nauvoo as a significant focus: Richard Lyman Bushman's exploration of Joseph Smith's city planning and Kenneth W. Godfrey's analysis of the Nauvoo temple. |
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