Stop the press: how the Mormon Church tried to silence the Salt Lake Tribune 9781633883406, 9781633883390, 1633883396

"A journalist and once-active Mormon details the behind-the-scenes manipulations of the Mormon Church as it tried t

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Stop the press: how the Mormon Church tried to silence the Salt Lake Tribune
 9781633883406, 9781633883390, 1633883396

Table of contents :
Bombshell --
1830: deep and historical resentments --
Missouri massacre --
Golden plates again --
Polygamy and baptism for the dead --
A press destroyed and peril to the prophet --
Brigham Young takes the reins of a church in chaos --
Westward ho --
Paiute Indians --
A new Mormon newspaper --
Scapegoating --
Brigham's fury at the feds and carpetbaggers --
The massacre at Mountain Meadows --
The war that almost was --
Fanatics and whores --
The Tribune and ZCMI are born --
The Great Divide and the border ruffians --
Mountain Meadows: Brigham Young's scapegoat --
The devil in the form of C.C. Goodwin --
Enter Thomas Kane --
Battle royal for the Tribune --
Mormons vs. the outside world --
Mountain meadows redux --
Media News Group buys the Trib --
The Tribune's buy-back option --
Singleton bankrupt, Alden Global Capital swoops in --
The note and its consequences --
Enter and re-enter the Huntsman family --
Whither the LDS church? --
The Tribune's future.

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