The king of confidence : a tale of utopian dreamers, frontier schemers, true believers, false prophets, and the murder of an American monarch / Miles Harvey.

By:

Harvey, Miles, 1960-

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0316463590
9780316463591

Other title:

Tale of utopian dreamers, frontier schemers, true believers, false prophets, and the murder of an American monarch

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DDC classification:

289.3092 B

LOC classification:

BX8680.S88

Contents:

Prologue. In which an angel watches a man fall from a window in Illinois, then flies to Wisconsin with pressing business.

Summary: "In 1843, James Strang vanished from a rural town in New York. Months later he reappeared on the Midwestern frontier and converted to Mormonism. In the wake of the murder of the sect's leader, Joseph Smith, Strang unveiled a letter purportedly from the prophet naming him successor, and persuaded hundreds of fellow converts to follow him to an island in Lake Michigan, where he declared himself a divine king" --Provided by publisher.

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Title notes ( 3 )

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	NMC Library	Stacks	BX8680 .S88 2020 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		33039001488633

Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-386) and index.

Prologue. In which an angel watches a man fall from a window in Illinois, then flies to Wisconsin with pressing business.

"In 1843, James Strang vanished from a rural town in New York. Months later he reappeared on the Midwestern frontier and converted to Mormonism. In the wake of the murder of the sect's leader, Joseph Smith, Strang unveiled a letter purportedly from the prophet naming him successor, and persuaded hundreds of fellow converts to follow him to an island in Lake Michigan, where he declared himself a divine king" --Provided by publisher.