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100 1  Park, Benjamin E.,|eauthor. 
245 10 Kingdom of Nauvoo :|bthe rise and fall of a religious 
       empire on the American frontier /|cBenjamin E. Park. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York, N.Y. :|bLiveright Publishing Corporation, a 
       division of W.W. Norton & Company,|c[2020] 
264  4 |c©©2020 
300    324 pages :|billustrations ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-319) and 
       index. 
505 00 |tSoil --|tSeeds --|tRoots --|tTrunk --|tBranches --
       |tFruit --|tHarvest --|tLegacies. 
520    "An extraordinary story of faith and violence in 
       nineteenth-century America, based on previously 
       confidential documents from the Mormon Church. Compared to
       the Puritans, Mormons have rarely gotten their due, often 
       treated as fringe cultists or marginalized polygamists 
       unworthy of serious examination. In Kingdom of Nauvoo, 
       Benjamin E. Park excavates the brief, tragic life of a 
       lost Mormon city, demonstrating that the Mormons are 
       essential to understanding American history writ large. 
       Using newly accessible sources, Park recreates the 
       Mormons' 1839 flight from Missouri to Illinois. There, 
       under the charismatic leadership of Joseph Smith, they 
       founded Nauvoo, which shimmered briefly-but Smith's 
       challenge to democratic traditions, as well as his new 
       doctrine of polygamy, would bring about its fall. His wife
       Emma, rarely written about, opposed him, but the greater 
       threat came from without: in 1844, a mob murdered Joseph, 
       precipitating the Mormon trek to Utah. Throughout his 
       absorbing chronicle, Park shows that far from being 
       outsiders, the Mormons were representative of their era in
       their distrust of democracy and their attempt to forge a 
       sovereign society of their own"--|cProvided by publisher. 
610 20 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints|zIllinois
       |xHistory. 
650  0 Mormon Church|zIllinois|xHistory. 
650  0 Latter Day Saints|zMississippi River Valley|xHistory. 
651  0 Nauvoo (Ill.)|xHistory.