David Gore joins a growing chorus of scholars hoping to give the Book of Mormon a more prominent spot in American intellectual and literary history. Rather than focusing on the scripture's complex origins and historicity, he asks what it has to say about civic engagement, political theory, and a virtuous life for readers today. He offers not an escape from politics but a facing down of its real difficulties. He asks us to "awake to mournfulness". Scholars who thin religious perspectives are somehow easier or less rigorous than secular ones should read Voice of the People.
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