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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
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
New York : Little Brown and Company, 2020.
Physical Description
ix, 401 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary
In 1843, James Strang, a charismatic young lawyer and avowed atheist, converted to a burgeoning religious movement known as Mormonism, persuaded hundreds to follow him to Lake Michigan, and declared himself a divine king. This book presents an account of one of the country's boldest con men and the boisterous era that allowed him to thrive.
Subjects
- Latter Day Saints > Michigan > Beaver Island > Biography
- Swindlers and swindling > Biography.
- Pirates > Michigan > Beaver Island.
- Beaver Island (Mich.) > Biography.
- Beaver Island (Mich.) > History.
- Michigan > History.
- Church of Jesus Christ (Strangites) > History > 19th century.
- Strang, James Jesse, 1813-1856.