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Elder Statesman : A Biography of J. Reuben Clark by D. Michael Quinn (2002,...
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller Notes
- “hardcover, former library book with VG jacket in plastic protective jacket. tight and unmarked.”
- Personalize
- No
- Signed
- No
- Ex Libris
- Yes
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Personalized
- No
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Inscribed
- No
- Intended Audience
- Adults
- Vintage
- Yes
- ISBN
- 9781560851554
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Signature Books, LLC
ISBN-10
1560851554
ISBN-13
9781560851554
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1918023
Product Key Features
Book Title
Elder Statesman : a Biography of J. Reuben Clark
Number of Pages
672 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Religious, Historical
Publication Year
2002
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
2.8 in
Item Weight
38.2 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2001-049404
Dewey Edition
21
Grade From
College Freshman
Dewey Decimal
289.3/092 B
Synopsis
J. Reuben Clark was all of these prior to his call to the LDS First Presidency. As a counselor to three church presidents--Heber J. Grant, George Albert Smith, and David O. McKay--he served longer than any other member of this high church council., J. Reuben Clark was all of these prior to his call to the LDS First Presidency. As a counselor to three church presidents Heber J. Grant, George Albert Smith, and David O. McKay he served longer than any other member of this high church council.Already controversial before he assumed his church duties, his blunt, independent style created even more ripples at LDS headquarters. Still, his impact, intellectually and administratively, was immense. His most important legacy may well be the professionalization of church government; where apostles previously met and decided issues based mostly on their collective years of experience, Clark drew from his secular training to introduce outside research, position papers, and extended discussion, all of which, for better or for worse, added to the administrative bureaucracy.In this impressive study of the elder statesman, as reporters labeled Clark, D. Michael Quinn considers what it meant for a Latter-day Saint to attain such national and international stature, although Quinn never loses sight of Reuben s very human qualities either. This fresh, intimate approach presents Clark on his own terms and draws readers into Clark s world in the context of the larger society of his time and place."From the dust jacket: "Life is never quite what is portrayed in inspirational books about famous people s experiences. One aspect that is rarely told about President Clark s life is his near-embrace of atheism in the 1920s. This period of his intellectual development is interesting and informative and ultimately as inspirational as Clark s conclusion that belief may be irrational but is essential. If nothing else, one admires the future church leader s rigor and honesty in exploring the fringes of faith. One also admires his biographer for the even-handed, frank treatment of the subject. Clark s commitment to a successful career similarly came at a sacrifice in other areas of his life. He chose work over family whenever the option presented itself.Two issues that stand at the forefront of Clark s headstrong manner are his views on pacifism and race. Both were significant to his overall world view and have much to say about the complexity of the issues and about the fallibility of human judgment.For most of his life, Clark was a military enthusiast. He served as the assistant Judge Advocate General during World War I and earned the Distinguished Service Medal. But he changed his mind and thereafter became known as fiercely anti-war. When the United States bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Clark accused his nation of barbarism and said that it had forfeited its right ever again to speak with moral authority in the world. That he also distrusted American propaganda and was sympathetic to National Socialism may come as a surprise to some readers.Similarly, readers may shudder to learn of Clark s views on race. He was partly responsible for the LDS Hospital s segregation of the blood of whites and Negroes, his logic being that since anyone with as little as one drop of African blood was ineligible for LDS priesthood ordination, a transfusion from a black donor to a white recipient would render the latter incapable of exercising priesthood authority. Such a racist view in part a reflection of the time is tempered by the disclosure that Clark was one of the first among the church leadership to advocate steps toward giving blacks the priesthood.Other ideological quandaries and soul-searching on Clark s part could be enumerated, but suffice it to say that anyone who picks up this volume will live Reuben s life with him. One may not ultimately understand why Clark said or did what he did in every instance, but there is a palpable sense of a life lived with all the quirks and ironies that real lives are made of."Elder Statesman"speaks to larger issues, but the spotlight remains on the man himself; readers are left to draw their own conclusions about whether Clark was a hero or villain in any
LC Classification Number
BX8695.C287Q55 2001
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