With his call as official LDS Church Historian in 1972, Leonard J. Arrington was given a mandate to professionalize its historical publications. Arrington’s team was prolific and its output impressive, but before long, they encountered opposition from a few members of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and church bureaucrats. Signature Books’s long awaited, 2,600-page

Gary James Bergera, Cristina Rosetti, Thomas G. Alexander, Lavina Fielding Anderson, Devery Anderson