Jon krakauer biography

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Jon Krakauer replies to interpretation Church of Jesus Christ be beneficial to Latter-Day Saints' official response disruption his latest book 'Under Say publicly Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith.

At the simulated of June 2003, the Creed of Jesus Christ of Recent Saints issued an official "response" to my new book, Under the Banner of Heaven: Trig Story of Violent Faith. Disseminated nationwide more than two weeks before my book was tabled to appear on bookstore shelves, this preemptive attack was authored by Richard E. Turley, Junior, a high-ranking church official who serves as managing director accomplish the LDS Family and Creed History Department. In his lingering, carefully worded screed, Elder Turley characterized Under the Banner learn Heaven as "a decidedly partial and negative view of Prophet history." According to his look at, my book was written by reason of "a condemnation of religion generally," and the Mormon faith shut in particular.

It saddens me ensure Elder Turley, speaking for influence LDS leadership (and by stretching for the church as simple whole), elected to regard forlorn book in such a reductionist light. Other reviewers have assessed Under the Banner of Heaven quite differently. As critic Prince Morris wrote in the July issue of Bookpage, "Raised amidst Mormons he greatly admired, Krakauer treats their religion--in all wellfitting theological shades--quite seriously. There's under no circumstances a snide remark or acid aside. But the ...