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Show One Inglish reviewer pre&sive part ot the book was _$ less enthus;.i4stie, the story Qt the Mormon littl doubt that thb section might t.ppMl or apat.:hetic t,ovtard the leligion, £fame of the leSE! entel"ta.1ning. 1&'$ There is migration. moat to read'ere unfamilli·r with but to readers with an L D S· background, publicized aspects Thb To him the l1«)$t im of Brigham Young th$ m&n Ire mol". English reviewer, however, (l}Qmpldned. Gat.s does not add a great deal that is not already She mal" give mu:eh more detail as , for in .$tance, ab·Qut the romantb story of the Mormon pionGrer journey aero$$ the desert, but aher ad.ds no new essential.s. Certain ly _erges .from the narrative 4$ Q :most 1"kable QTg$tw '. con knowledge. Ig ber.4Q This is not a eomplet.1y fair analysis of Mra. Gates' contributions. The reviewer 1 L §. $:arly should have know that most lees about the t D S leader t-han tid most Americans. Englishmen St(!)!7{; that organizer." A hac been E)'.Ten a 1tmost remarkable weren tt, cGnvinced heading like "Oieta.t.or ot the Desert" could. scarcely prombe favora.ble review or tbe Lite s.toa. This distiMtly American look at anothel'! ,h.rican sa.id. in part t This life of her father by SuM Young Gat.es is not an im or $deql.tate biography of the prodigious founder of Utah. partia.l She is Mrs. Ga.tes is too much of a. rr..issionary writing a traot tOG bent on justif1ing, not to say whitewashing, the "old. billy as he _$ $ometim$s known by his not-loving friends. In goa:t.1' writing thllS, 4ut,iful daughter SU redues the st8te of 4\ splen Though Mr$. Gates is did. autocrat, a :ma,gnifi0ent rouglmeok •• it """- . " " even And most Americans J ttntll abou.t the time of the publication of the tite Brigham Young knew a |
