David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism

Why it’s on the list: Prince and Wright had access to McKay’s own diaries and office journals, and use them to show a church president deciding — on the priesthood restriction, on building programs, on politics, on how a mid-century American institution went global. The standard scholarly biography.

Where I saw it: Hand-typed in the note as “David O McKay book by Gregory prince” — one of three lines Kyle typed out rather than pasting a link.

Connections

• David O. McKay — the subject.
• Mormonism · Religious Intellectualism — the field and the portfolio idea.
• Leonard Arrington and the Writing of Mormon History — the read-library book on the same scholarly tradition.
• Elder Statesman — also saved in this note; Quinn’s J. Reuben Clark biography covers the same decades from the next chair over.