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Book Review of Under the Banner of Heaven : A Story of Violent Faith

Under the Banner of Heaven : A Story of Violent Faith
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I found this book to be fascinating! I did not know the history of LDS and it gave you the whole story. It was written as one chapter of history and one chapter of the murder story, back and forth for the length of the book. (Had a daughter who was moving to Utah and insisted she read it before she went. It was also recommended to her by one of the persons that interviewed her. It's a real strange state and she has since moved on. Not a place for a single non-Morman female.) All of Krakauer's books are written in a very journalistic style and not as a story, per se.