We'll Sing and We'll Shout: The Life and Times of W. W. Phelps

Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good +. 526pp. Quarto [26 cm] Dark red cloth over boards with gilt stamped titles on the backstrip and front board. There is a minor ding along the bottom edge of the rear board, and there are a couple of small stains to the foot of the text block. Else, the pages are clean and bright. In a dust jacket, with a barely perceptible crease that runs from the head to the foot of the rear panel. "This is an engaging and dynamic narrative of one of early Mormonism's most influential leaders, whose life is deserving of a full-length biography. As one of Joseph Smith's closest advisers and associates, W. W. Phelps was a key eyewitness and participant in many of the early scenes and events of the Restoration and a leading promoter of the Prophet's doctrinal teachings and theological views. His many titles and roles include that of printer, editor, author, poet, hymnist, scribe, scholar, presiding elder, ghostwriter, clerk, and political activist. Readers will come to recognize and appreciate the numerous contributions he made to early Mormonism, many of which are still present in the Church today." - Alexander L. Baugh (Professor of Church History and Doctrine, Brigham Young University). (Inventory #: 67628)