SWK Bio

[_Jason Bourne]

I just drafted a long post about this book but lost it.

Anyway it is a must read for any interested in LDS history. Open, honest and candid.

Say what you will about SWK, he was a magnificant man who wore himself out in the work he believed in, loved the people, reached out all he could and tackled some tough issues.

Maybe later I will try to redo my lost post.

[_Gazelam]

Please post a link or image to the book you are refering to. I was at the Bookstore on friday and saw a large number of Books about him.

Thanks

Gaz

[_Runtu]

I just drafted a long post about this book but lost it.

Anyway it is a must read for any interested in LDS history. Open, honest and candid.

Say what you will about SWK, he was a magnificant man who wore himself out in the work he believed in, loved the people, reached out all he could and tackled some tough issues.

Maybe later I will try to redo my lost post.

I have had that book for a long time (I'm assuming you're speaking of the book his sons wrote). I still think highly of President Kimball. He was a good man who believed wholeheartedly in his religion. I don't agree with a lot of what he said, but I think he was an honest believer in what he preached.

[_Jason Bourne]

I just drafted a long post about this book but lost it.

Anyway it is a must read for any interested in LDS history. Open, honest and candid.

Say what you will about SWK, he was a magnificant man who wore himself out in the work he believed in, loved the people, reached out all he could and tackled some tough issues.

Maybe later I will try to redo my lost post.

I have had that book for a long time (I'm assuming you're speaking of the book his sons wrote). I still think highly of President Kimball. He was a good man who believed wholeheartedly in his religion. I don't agree with a lot of what he said, but I think he was an honest believer in what he preached.

There are two books written by Ed, his son. One was written whem SWK was Church president and it covered most of his life. The other is recent, published just last year. It is on only his years as Church President. It also has a comprenensive CD with material not included in the Bio. THe Book is called Spencer W. Kimball-Lengthen Your Stride.

One of the reasons I think it is a great bio is the details it gives about the years he was president. Like the book David O McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism, one gets a birds eye view of the workings of the Church. Ed is very positive, of course, about his father. But very candid as well. He does not back away from some of the more contraversial issues and even discussed the strained relationship Pres., Kimball had with his oldest non-believing son. He also notes that SWK felt that he had been too strong or harch in the book Miracle of Forgiveness.

Anyway, Gaz, just search the title I give above.

For any student of LDS history, this book along with the DOM bio I mention above, you get a good vie of the Church Hierarchy from 1950 to 1985.


Again, SWK was an amazing man. He worked himself to the end in the cause he believed in. He was champion of the common member and loved to spend time with members even at his own expense to his health.

[_Gazelam]

Thanks fro the information

I read the Biography of Bruce R McConkie by his son and got the same "insiders view" that you spoke about. Being outside that innerworkings , it's cool to get that account of how things went on. Helps make the apostles more intimate and not just the Brethren on the stand at confrence.

I'll have to pick that one up, thanks.