Kyle Harrison
to-read
Elder Statesman
Elder Statesman: A Biography of J. Reuben Clark
- Author
- D. Michael Quinn
- Published
- 2002
- Pages
- 631
- Recommended
- Once
Why it’s on the list: Quinn’s biography of J. Reuben Clark — Undersecretary of State, ambassador to Mexico, then for three decades a counselor in the First Presidency — the study of how one man carried a legal and diplomatic career into the governance of a church.
Where I heard about it
- My own reading list — saved as a bare Amazon link to my “Books To Read” note, sometime between 2024 and 2026; no recommender recorded.
Connections
- J. Reuben Clark — the subject.
- D. Michael Quinn — author.
- Mormonism · Religious Intellectualism — the field and the portfolio idea.
- Leonard Arrington and the Writing of Mormon History — the other book in the corpus on the writing of that history.