526:"Park’s book is a compelling history, built from contemporaneous accounts and from the previously unreleased minutes of the Council of Fifty. . . . Park’s explication of them elevates Kingdom of Nauvoo from pure religious history to the realm of political theory. Park, an ambidextrous thinker, is equally sensitive to the danger the state can pose to religious minorities and to the danger that a religious institution can pose to the secular state. In his account, the early Mormons were a rowdy band of neo-Puritans who mounted a fundamental challenge to the democratic experiment. The tensions that they experienced―between the right to religious freedom and the limits of religious tolerance―still persist today." --
920:". . there’s the genre in which active church members examine their faith. Too often, however, Latter-day Saint writers take special pains to demonstrate just how objective they are in a well-intentioned but ultimately gauche bid to convince readers that they’re playing it straight. The tragedy of this kind of performative objectivity is that it usually steers clear of the very texture and personal vulnerability that might actually lend relevant insight into what animates the faith tradition. Maybe the most striking example of this would include in the realm of popular history, Benjamin Park’s recent 'Kingdom of Nauvoo.' . ." - Hal Boyd,
888:". . Park really did have lots of new material (huzzah!), but I think he was also right to reference #MeToo; and collectively our people have a long way to go to grapple with both our history and our present sexism and the harm it’s done. Just as potent, however, is an incredibly ascendant but dehumanizingly simplistic story of how faith communities are established and maintained—a Richard Dawkins-esque story about ignorance, superstition, and the reality of zealotry as a fact of human psychology. . ." - James Olsen, TimesAndSeasons.org blogpost comment (in thread below David Evans's post "The Delicious Detail of Benjamin Park’s Book
801:" .. I wanted to share with the author additional facts and clear up the speculations in his work that mar the publication and his future career. The bottom line is that I came away from my first read of Kingdom of Nauvoo knowing the author missed the joy of Nauvoo’s true history as he reached for sensational topics that sell in today’s market — polygamy and the Council of Fifty. I asked myself why this author, with an academic background from Brigham Young University and a bright academic future, aligned himself with scholarship that degrades a prophet of God. .. Can it really be concluded that the
930:". . Park’s argument is more subtle and interesting: Joseph Smith and his followers, he agrees, are best understood as a product of their time and place — the early nineteenth century American republic, a place of religious revivals, rapid change, and a faith in the future of the American experiment. But they also represented a distinct challenge to that republic and to that civic-minded optimism. . ." - Christopher Jones,
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752:".. With unprecedented access to the Mormon Church’s archives and guided by deep knowledge of its history, Park explains how Smith’s aspirations as a presidential candidate, increasing paranoia, and contradictory political theology tore apart the town of Commerce, which he had renamed Nauvoo Park makes this story vivid in his fascinating, well-told take on antebellum America." --
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596:"Benjamin E. Park's Kingdom of Nauvoo tells the story of the city the Mormons built in Illinois before crossing the plains to Utah. Making sound use of newly available documents, Park's story exemplifies the new Mormon history at its best. The author demonstrates the importance of women-including the prophet's first wife, Emma Smith-in the shaping of Mormon history." --
880:". . If you read just this volume, you might find yourself scratching your head as to why all these converts found Joseph ’s message so compelling in the first place. (Park doesn’t ignore this, but he doesn’t dwell on it.) I found this a useful book to read about Joseph Smith. But I wouldn’t make it the only book you read about him." - David Evans,
897:". . Park, to his credit, does not play to the cheap seats. He downplays the sensational and the lurid. Park's account of the events of those tumultuous years is as clear as a story can be that has dozens of characters. He writes with clarity and economy; the book is not a sentence longer than it needs to be. . ." - James Krohe Jr,
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785:".. Where is the author’s knowledge that Joseph Smith was a prophet and the Lord revealed his words to him? To take out faith, a belief that God speaks to his prophet, and the sacrifice of thousands of early Latter-day Saints to build up Nauvoo (and their reason why) is to miss the mark. .. " --
556:" enjoyable and fastidiously researched work.... Park, who was given extensive access to the Mormon Church's archives, entertainingly establishes this little-known Mormon settlement's proper place within the formative years of the Illinois and Missouri frontier." --
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