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Shifting borders and a tattered passport : intellectual journeys of a Mormon academic / Armand L. Mauss ; foreword by Richard Bushman.

Title
Shifting borders and a tattered passport : intellectual journeys of a Mormon academic / Armand L. Mauss ; foreword by Richard Bushman.
Author
Mauss, Armand L.
Publication
Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, c2012.

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Description
xvii, 258 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Summary
"Escalation, the first episode, traces the role of Utah men and women in the first years of American military involvement in Vietnam when romantic images of war gave way to the harsh reality of tough jungle combat."--Cover.
Uniform Title
Project Muse UPCC books
Subject
  • Mauss, Armand L
  • Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints > United States > History > 20th century
  • 1900-1999
  • Latter Day Saints > California > Biography
  • Latter Day Saint churches > United States > History > 20th century
  • United States > Intellectual life > 20th century
Genre/Form
  • Biographies
  • History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-251) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Not a boring life -- Earning the passport as a "defender of the faith" -- Touring academia in search of new realities -- Revisiting the Mormons: new perspectives encounter narrower boundaries -- Traveling back and forth with a new theory about Mormon history -- Recurrent visits with the race issue -- My journey with dialogue -- Bridging the chasm between academics and apologetics: the Claremont experiment -- Periodic passport checks with gatekeepers in the homeland -- Concluding apologia.
ISBN
  • 9781607812043 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 1607812045 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2012025407
OCLC
  • 803467770
  • SCSB-11222477
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library