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Ehon - Chơi Cùng Momo - Chú Bé Quả Đào (Momo Đi Đâu Vội Thế?) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Toyota Kazuhiko

A book of narrow but dramatic interest, Massacre at Mountain Meadows contains the most complete historical record of one of the bleakest events in the history of the Mormon settlement of the West. Few people know the extent of the Mormon colonization of what is today the western United States, Mexico, and even Canada. For example, you may not know that Las Vegas was a sleepy Mormon colony right up until people like Bugsy Siegel turned it into a modern Mecca for debauchery. The 1857 massacre of an emigrant train of more than a hundred men, women, and children from Arkansas and Missouri while crossing southern Utah was an unparalleled tragedy. Contemporary Mormon settlers laid it at the feet of the Paiute Indians for years until it was later discovered to have been a raid led primarily by a handful of overzealous and paranoid Mormon community leaders. Because of the modest cover up, enemies of the Mormon church concluded that the cover up must lead all the way to the head of the Mormon church, Brigham Young, hundreds of miles away. Because of this enmity, the Mormon church refused to be open with hostile investigators and later historians because they perceived a desire to unfairly persecute the church. Such wariness is not unwarranted, given Mormon history. So it is a relief that enough time has passed that the Mormon church was finally willing to open its entire archive collection from the time period to a trio of historians who surfaced every piece of relevant information possible to reconstruct what likely happened in the Mountain Meadows so many years ago. The writing has deliberately been tamed for the lay reader rather than the historian, though the ample endnoting provides any interested reader with more than enough source material. There is some necessary insertion of theoretical perspective in order to explain how otherwise normal people could commit such an atrocity, but the theory serves to guide the reader rather than distract. The result is a penetrating and terrible description of this awful event, but one finally grounded in fact with holes filled using legitimate historical methods rather than conjecture. The scene is horrible to contemplate, but at least a light has finally been shone on the scene and the victims are properly honored. Many once accused -- both Paiute and Mormon -- have been vindicated, while others -- mostly Mormon, some Paiute -- are firmly accused. The purpose of the book is not to stand as judge or jury but to exonerate where possible, respect where necessary, and learn from the mistakes of history so that we are not condemned to repeat them. This book enables all three purposes and its authors are to be congratulated.

Người đọc Mariam Bederu từ Nigoha, Uttar Pradesh , India

Người dùng coi những cuốn sách này là thú vị nhất trong năm 2017-2018, ban biên tập của cổng thông tin "Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn" khuyến cáo rằng tất cả các độc giả sẽ làm quen với văn học này.