Juanita Brooks: Mormon Woman Historian

by Levi S. Peterson

Book Overview

Born in 1898 in Bunkerville, Nevada, Juanita Brooks led an early life similar to that of many who grew up in isolated, tightly knit, rural Mormon communities. An early marriage suggested her future... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874805120
• ISBN13: 9780874805123
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: University of Utah Press
• Length: 528 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Attention History Buffs!

This book is NOT for everyone; it is for fans of TRUTH, of a candid, straightforward approach to life,Mormonism, and History of the West, Utah, and religion-religious organizations.Juanits Brooks may well go down as the most honest LDS author EVER, and this book chronicles her life: what brought her to the point and the process involved in writing the book (2 editions) that brought the MMM out of darkness. May her memory live in the hearts of honest men & women forever.

Juanita Brooks, Mormon Historian

Levi S. Peterson has done a remarkable job of researching and collating an enormous amount of material in revealing the wonderful life and career of a magnificent lady. Juanita Brooks, in her own right, was a premier writer of Mormon Utah and environs, who represented the very best in objective reporting in an environment that can be rather reserved. Dr. Levi Peterson, Professor of English at Weber State University in Utah brings Juanita Brooks to all of us who have admired her for so very many years. Professor Peterson has made a marvelous contribution to the autobiographical literature of historical writing, showing the best in organization and leading the reader onward, and onward with great anticipation to the next sentence, and the next. It is as wonderful an account of a worthy life as I have ever read!George A. Hamm