Monday, November 5, 2018

Book Review: The Mormonizing of America

The Mormonizing of America: How the Mormon Religion Became a Dominant Force in politics, Entertainment, and Pop Culture by Stephen Mansfield, Worthy Publishing, Brentwood, Tennessee, 2012.
Most of this book is determined to present every anti-Mormon argument or statement ever made.  This dominated the first 220 pages, and then the last 20 pages actually dealt with the theme of the title, what about Mormonism seems to promote achievement.  The author is not a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and makes that abundantly clear by the sources upon which he relies. 

Thursday, November 1, 2018

Book Review: The Colorado Road: (Colorado Rail History)

The Colorado Road: History, Motive Power, and Equipment of the Colorado and Southern, Fort Worth and Denver Railways by F. Hol Wagner, Jr., The Intermountain Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society, Denver, CO, 1970.
This book is exciting for the pictures, I did not read it so much.  There are three artistic renditions of locomotives traveling through Colorado; and then hundreds of pictures of rail engines and cars and equipment.