Abstract:<\/strong>\u00a0Benjamin Park recently wrote a\u00a0substantive revisionist history of Nauvoo, Illinois, the one-time Church capital under the leadership of Joseph\u00a0Smith, Jr. This article serves as a\u00a0critical review of Park\u2019s work. Congratulating the author for placing this well-known Latter-day Saint story within the larger Jacksonian American democratic context, as well as for utilizing a\u00a0great many primary sources hardly used before, Richard Bennett in this critical review assesses both the strengths and the weaknesses of this important new book. While complimenting Park for his significant contributions on politics, women, and race in Nauvoo, Bennett nonetheless finds much to criticize in what he sees as a\u00a0unidimensional, highly political study that disregards many previous studies of Nauvoo and fails to address many other critically important facets of the city\u2019s life and history from its inception in 1839 until the Saints\u2019 departure in 1846.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n The second is from Kent P. Jackson<\/a>:<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n
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Two important reviews appeared today in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship<\/em>.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n The first is from\u00a0