8 must-read history books like Terrible Revolution: Latter-day Saints and the American Apocalypse by Christopher James Blythe

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Terrible Revolution: Latter-day Saints and the American Apocalypse

By: Christopher James Blythe

4.48

Format: 348 pages, Hardcover

The relationship between early Mormons and the United States was marked by anxiety and hostility, h…

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1. Colonel Roosevelt (Theodore Roosevelt)

By: Edmund Morris

4.10

Format: 766 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK •  “Colonel Roosevelt is compelling readi… read more

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"If he was less motivated by compassion than anger at what he saw as the arrogance of capital,he chafed,nonetheless,to regulate it."

-Edmund Morris, Colonel Roosevelt (Theodore Roosevelt)

"Ensconced, he (Roosevelt) lacked some of the neuroses of progressives-economic envy and race hatred especially.His radicalism was a matter of energy rather than urgency."

-Edmund Morris, Colonel Roosevelt (Theodore Roosevelt)

"Norway...looked to Roosevelt "as funny a kingdom as was ever imagined outside of opera bouffe....It is much as if Vermont should offhand try the experiment of having a king."

-Edmund Morris, Colonel Roosevelt (Theodore Roosevelt)

"He has,in short,reached his peak as a hunter,exuberantly altered from the pale,overweight statesman of ten months ago. Africa's way of reducing every problem of existence to dire alternatives-shoot o…"

-Edmund Morris, Colonel Roosevelt (Theodore Roosevelt)

2. The Sin of Certainty: Why God Desires Our Trust More Than Our "Correct" Beliefs

By: Peter Enns

3.91

Format: 241 pages, Hardcover

The controversial evangelical Bible scholar and author of The Bible Tells Me Soexplains how Christi… read more

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3. A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women's Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870

By: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

3.61

Format: 8 pages, Audio CD

A stunning and sure-to-be controversial book that pieces together, through more than two dozen nine… read more

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4. Angle of Repose

By: Wallace Stegner

3.56

Format: None pages,

Wallace Stegner's Pultizer Prize-winning novel is a story of discovery--personal, historical, and g… read more

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5. Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base

By: Annie Jacobsen

4.21

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Area 51 is the most famous military installation in the world--& it doesn't exist. Located 75 miles… read more

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6. God's Secretaries : The Making of the King James Bible

By: Adam Nicolson

3.92

Format: None pages, Paperback

A network of complex currents flowed across Jacobean England. This was the England of Shakespeare, … read more

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7. American Zion: A New History of Mormonism

By: Benjamin E. Park

4.21

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

The first major history of Mormonism in a decade, drawing on newly available sources to reveal a pr… read more

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Cover of Romney: A Reckoning by McKay Coppins

8. Romney: A Reckoning

By: McKay Coppins

4.36

Format: 416 pages, ebook

A remarkably illuminating biography of the political maverick, filled with revelations and written … read more

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  • religion
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9. The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq

By: Steve Coll

4.44

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Steve Coll, the definitive story of the decades-… read more

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10. Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present

By: Fareed Zakaria

4.23

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The CNN host and best-selling author explores the revolutions—past and present—that define the pola… read more

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Cover of Young Woman and the Sea: How Trudy Ederle Conquered the English Channel and Inspired the World by Glenn Stout

11. Young Woman and the Sea: How Trudy Ederle Conquered the English Channel and Inspired the World

By: Glenn Stout

4.23

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

The exhilarating true story of Trudy Ederle, the first woman to swim the English Channel, and inspi… read more

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Cover of Enos, Jarom, Omni: A Brief Theological Introduction (The Book of Mormon: Brief Theological Introductions, #4) by Sharon J. Harris

12. Enos, Jarom, Omni: A Brief Theological Introduction (The Book of Mormon: Brief Theological Introductions, #4)

By: Sharon J. Harris

4.44

Format: 145 pages, Kindle Edition

"And I did cry unto God that he would preserve the records." Less than a generation after Sariah an… read more

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13. Sacred Struggle: Seeking Christ on the Path of Most Resistance

By: Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye

4.60

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

We are part of a complex Church community―full of people who think differently than we do, behave i… read more

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14. 2nd Nephi: A Brief Theological Introduction (The Book of Mormon: Brief Theological Introductions, #2)

By: Terryl L. Givens

4.40

Format: 116 pages, Paperback

"I have seen a vision, in which I know that Jerusalem is destroyed . . ." In the wake of epic ca… read more

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Cover of Alma 30–63: A Brief Theological Introduction (The Book of Mormon: Brief Theological Introductions, #7) by Mark A. Wrathall

15. Alma 30–63: A Brief Theological Introduction (The Book of Mormon: Brief Theological Introductions, #7)

By: Mark A. Wrathall

4.45

Format: 164 pages, Paperback

"Now is the time and the day of your salvation . . ." Alma the Younger is forever changed by an … read more

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16. Alma 1–29: a brief theological introduction (The Book of Mormon: Brief Theological Introductions, #6)

By: Kylie Nielson Turley

4.56

Format: 164 pages, Paperback

". . . that there might not be more sorrow upon all the face of the earth." Alma is an idolatrou… read more

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17. Terrible Revolution: Latter-day Saints and the American Apocalypse

By: Christopher James Blythe

4.48

Format: 348 pages, Hardcover

The relationship between early Mormons and the United States was marked by anxiety and hostility, h… read more

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18. Second-Class Saints: Black Mormons and the Struggle for Racial Equality

By: Matthew L. Harris

4.91

Format: 488 pages, Hardcover

An in-depth account--grounded in new archival discoveries--of the most consequential development in… read more

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19. Every Needful Thing

By: Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye

4.37

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

A collection of essays from accomplished academics and professionals who speak about discipleship n… read more

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Cover of Joseph White Musser: A Mormon Fundamentalist (Introductions to Mormon Thought) by Cristina M. Rosetti

20. Joseph White Musser: A Mormon Fundamentalist (Introductions to Mormon Thought)

By: Cristina M. Rosetti

4.40

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

In 1921, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints excommunicated Joseph White Musser for his… read more

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Cover of Helaman: a brief theological introduction  (The Book of Mormon: Brief Theological Introductions, #8) by Kimberly Matheson Berkey

21. Helaman: a brief theological introduction (The Book of Mormon: Brief Theological Introductions, #8)

By: Kimberly Matheson Berkey

4.48

Format: 132 pages, Paperback

"Now is the time and the day of your salvation . . ." Alma the Younger is forever changed by an… read more

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McKay Coppins

4.36

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Sharon J. Harris

4.44

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Ron Chernow

4.16

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David McCullough

4.09

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Scott Miller

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