Papers, 1953, 1954 | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Summary:Research paper, one handwritten and one typed, on Joseph Smith's candidacy for president of the United States, written while obtaining his B.A. from Iowa State University. Discusses the political activities in the state, those active in politics and how the Mormons, specifically Joseph Smith, fit into politics of the time. The article was published in fourteen installments in the "Hancock County Journal". Several other articles on Joseph Smith and the Mormons, research material used in writing the articles and correspondence re: the articles. Book review of "Children of God" by Vardis Fisher, a book on Mormonism that Van Dine found to be "a prostitution of literature" and "ought to be dynamited."