New history of LDS Church tells the story of a ‘fractured’ nation and faith

Benjamin Park’s “American Zion” explores the rise of the nation’s most successful homegrown religion — and how it sometimes battled and embraced the country that gave it birth.

(George W. Reed via J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah) A large American flag hangs from the Salt Lake Temple commemorating Utah's statehood in 1896. Benjamin Park's new book notes this was the largest Old Glory to date, measuring 132 feet by 74 feet.

New history of LDS Church tells the story of a ‘fractured’ nation and faith

Benjamin Park’s “American Zion” explores the rise of the nation’s most successful homegrown religion — and how it sometimes battled and embraced the country that gave it birth.

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