The other was a link in the chain of a renowned Mormon family whose positions in the leading councils of the Church span virtually the entire history of Mormonism. One was an enthusiastic supporter and friend of Joseph Smith, who eventually left the main body of the Church to lead his own band to Texas. These are Saints presented not as objects of veneration, but as "human beings who, like the rest of us, struggle to be worthy of the title Latter-day Saint." Two were apostles. Arrington and Davis Bitton sketch Mormonism from its earliest beginnings to modern times. Through the fascinating experiences of seventeen Latter-day Saints, Leonard J. Unlike most Mormon histories, Saints without Halos is a treatment of the human, rather than institutional side of Mormon history.
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