The king of confidence : a tale of utopian dreamers, frontier schemers, true believers, false prophets, and the murder of an American monarch
(2020)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
BIOGRAPHY/STRANG,J
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PUBLISHED
New York : Little Brown and Company, 2020
©2020
©2020
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
ix, 401 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780316463591, 0316463590, 9780316463591, 0316463590, 9780316463591
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
In 1843, James Strang, a charismatic young lawyer and avowed atheist, converted to a burgeoning religious movement known as Mormonism, persuaded hundreds to follow him to Lake Michigan, and declared himself a divine king. This book presents an account of one of the country's boldest con men and the boisterous era that allowed him to thrive