David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism
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David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism
| Author | Gregory A. Prince, Wm. Robert Wright |
|---|---|
| Published | 2005 |
| Pages | 520 |
| Recommended | 2 times |
| Buy | Amazon |
| 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 heard about it
- My own note — typed in from memory as “David O McKay book by Gregory prince” rather than saved from a link.
- @Parley_Preaches — quoted it at length on X in September 2026, an anecdote about President McKay and a Coca-Cola–branded cup at a theatre intermission: the post.
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.
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