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The King of Confidence: A Tale of Utopian Dreamers, Frontier Schemers, True Believers, False Prophets, and the Murder of an American Monarch
By Harvey, Miles
- ISBN
- 9780316463591
- Publisher
- Little, Brown
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Reviewed on May 1, 2020 | Social Sciences
James Strang (1813–56) was a talented lawyer, charismatic preacher, newspaper editor, state legislator, self-crowned king of a breakaway Mormon sect, and victim of his own overreach when he died at the hands of disillusioned acolytes. According to Harvey (English, DePaul University; Painter in a Savage Land), Strang epitomized 19th-century American archetypes: the "self-made man" (born into obscurity only to become theocrat) and the "confidence m...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
