The Brigham Young Podcast with John Turner - Pt. 1 | Ep. 2188
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The Brigham Young Podcast with John Turner - Pt. 1 | Ep. 2188

B2Upper-intermediateAugust 31, 20261 hr 59 min

In this new series on Mormon Stories Podcast, we’re joined once again by historian Dr. John Turner to take an in-depth look at one of the most important –and complicated –figures in Mormon history: Brigham Young. Dr. Turner is the author of Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet, his acclaimed 2012 biography of the second president and prophet of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. John was recently our guest for an extensive series on his newer biography, "Joseph Smith: The Rise and Fall of an American Prophet." In this epi...

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Hello everyone and welcome to the Brigham Young podcast. I am Dr. John DeLynn, host of Mormon Stories podcast, and I'm here with Dr. John Turner, Distinguished Professor of History

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at the George Mason University. And we are so excited to be kicking off a brand new podcast series that is going to be its own podcast series,

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but also integrated into the Mormon Stories podcast feed. And it is all about the life of Brigham Young, the second president, and we'll see if he'd like to call himself prophet,

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