Description:
Reintroduces readers to one of America's most influential and controversial biographers.
Brief description: Newell G. Bringhurst is Professor Emeritus of History and Political Science at the College of the Sequoias in Visalia, California. He is the author and editor of multiple volumes, including Brigham Young and the Expanding American Frontier, Saints, Slaves, and Blacks: The Changing Place of Black People Within Mormonism, Black and Mormon, and Excavating Mormon Pasts: The New Historiography of the Last Half Century. Bringhurst is past president of both the Mormon History Association and the John Whitmer Historical Association. He lives in Visalia, California, with his wife.