Description

Detailed study of tensions and conflicts in the leadership of the LDS Church, family relationships of various LDS leaders, church finances and political interference.

Table of Contents

Chapter

1. The Twin Charges of the Apostleship
2. Tensions among the First Presidency
3. Ezra Taft Benson: A Study of Inter-Quorum Conflict
4. Presiding Patriarch, Presiding Bishop, the Seventy, and an Expanding Bureaucracy
5. Family Relationships
6. Church Finances
7. Post-1844 Theocracy and a Culture of Violence
8. Priesthood Rule and Shadow Governments
9. Partisan Politics
10. A National Force, 1970's-1990's

Appendices:

1. General Officers of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1845-1996
2. Biographical Sketches of General Officers of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Appointed 1849-1932
3. Appointments to the Theocratic Council of Fifty through 1884
4. Family Relationships among 101 Current General Authorities and Their Wives, 1996
5. Selected Chronology of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1848-1996