Church, State, and Politics: The Diaries of John Henry Smith

700pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Gray cloth with red printed cloth panels. Green endpapers. With a frontispiece portrait of John Henry Smith. Off white satin ribbon page marker laid in. Includes an index. Spine is rolled. Inscription from the editor on the front free end paper reads, "To a student and devoted follower of Utah history, Ezra T. Clark. --John Bickmore White March 1991" Volume in the acclaimed Signature Books diary series. This edition is limited to five hundred copies, of which this is copy number 154. Smith was a member of the Quorum of the Twelve, and a General Authority in Joseph F. Smith's Presidency, after the death of John R. Winder. Smith was also the Chair of the Utah Constitutional Convention. From the publisher- "Jean Bickmore White has a long-standing interest in Utah political history. She holds an M.A. degree from the University of California at Los Angeles and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Utah, both in political science. While writing her dissertation on Utah politics in the 1890s, she first read John Henry Smith’s extensive journals and letters and recognized their importance in understanding the politics of that period in Utah history. A professor of political science at Weber State University since 1969, she has published articles and book reviews in the Utah Historical Quarterly, Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Weber Studies, the Journal of the Mormon History, and the Charles Redd Center Monograph Series.".…