Jonathan Hughes has written a spritely book about those men, the vital few in American history, who have had a major impact on our economic growth. Brigham Young is selected as one of them. Hughes,…
[…] a few swipes at Karl Marx, Hollywood, Madison Avenue, TV, and Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, which we get. In a surprising passage Clark attempts to document the “running battle art has fought through history” […]
[…] hands of the author the reader is introduced to a facet of history usually skirted in objective writing. The author neither indicts nor clears Rockwell of the dark deeds laid to his charge by the […]
[…] to prevent the opportunity of experiencing powerful visions of life by any author of talent does no service to truth. To employ our repugnance toward profanity to the extreme of condemning a great play […]
[…] drama departments sometimes attended. One time we met and listened to Dr. Crawford Gates tell of the writing of the music for the Book of Mormon Pageant. Another time we met at the home […]
The title of the book is appropriate: It is the name of a certain fictional mound or tell—layers on layers of rubble left by successive inhabitants who clustered near a typical water-source in Palestine. From…
[…] uttered aloud “I’m on a spiritual journey” and winced. Good God, what was next, posting on Reddit? Writing angry letters to Church HQ? Last week, he’d stumbled across some ex-Mormon blog (he could no […]
[…] blushing in my mirror. “Yeah. You bet . . . President Pilner.” “We should, like, do more service projects together. I mean—with everyone else too.” “Yeah.” “I’ll talk to Sister Benson about it. You’ll […]
[…] Bologna, Michael and I had written monthly. He promised to visit me in Trento, if he could get time off from work. And then he promised to visit me in Vicenza. Soon, though, Michael’s […]
[…] her as blind. She passed so well in the seeing world, never using a stick or a service dog. He’d always thought she must be only partially blind, but it hadn’t been something he’d […]