Pretty fascinating. I'm reading a lot of Nelson's interactions with high-ranking church leaders.
I'm trying to imagine what this long book is actually about. surprisingly, the "good stories" get very little mention. The thought struck me that Rusty was ready to exploit minor incidents, but that fresh in his mind, he couldn't just outright falsify them with heroic detail, and so he left the imagination to fill in the blanks by writing stub entries. And his own imagination did fill in those blanks later on.
How does this book break down in content, Gabriel? Is it like 35% family history, 15% his career, 10% his rubbing elbows with church higher-ups?
A lot of what seems to get quoted from his book are juicy tidbits. What is the main substance?
Gadianton, for starters, here is an overview of the contents of From Heart to Heart:
wrote:
Foreword by President Spencer W. Kimball
Preface
Acknowledgments
PART A- The Privileges of Preparation and Service
Chapter 1. An Overview by Dantzel White Nelson
2. From Europe to Ephraim
3. The Anderson and Nelson Homes
4. The Preparation and Progress of My Parents
5. Childhood Years
6. University Life and Courtship Days
7. Dantzel and the White Family
8. Early Married Life in Salt Lake City
9. Life in Minnesota
10. Life in Washington, D.C., and in the Army
11. We Move to Boston
12. The Return to Minneapolis
13. Return to Salt Lake City and Garden Park Ward
14. Special Experiences (1956-57)
15. Life Anew at Normandie Circle
16. Service as Stake President (1964-71)
17. Missionary Memories
18. Service as General President of the Sunday School
PART B-Relationships with the Brethren
19. Presidents Heber J. Grant, George Albert Smith,
David O. McKay, Joseph Fielding Smith
20. President Harold B. Lee
21. President Spencer W. Kimball-I
22. President Spencer W. Kimball-II
23. Presidents Hugh B. Brown, N. Eldon Tanner, Marion G. Romney, Ezra Taft Benson
24. The Lord Watches Over His Anointed
195 PART C-Feelings and Fondness for Our Family
25. Family Traditions
26 - 35 Are chapters about each of their children
PART D-Professional Relationships
36. Local, National, and International Responsibilities
37. Residents Trained
PART E-Concluding Thoughts
PART F-Annual Highlights (1960-1978)
PART G-Genealogical Exhibits
Index
(“the Dyers are Mormons and believe in keeping a year's supply of foodstuffs”) and a wine cellar.
My family, too, found that textured vegetable protein always goes down better with a nice glass of Merlot. (However, we usually drank blush wines when munching on banana chips).
Pretty fascinating. I'm reading a lot of Nelson's interactions with high-ranking church leaders.
I'm trying to imagine what this long book is actually about. surprisingly, the "good stories" get very little mention. The thought struck me that Rusty was ready to exploit minor incidents, but that fresh in his mind, he couldn't just outright falsify them with heroic detail, and so he left the imagination to fill in the blanks by writing stub entries. And his own imagination did fill in those blanks later on.
How does this book break down in content, Gabrial? Is it like 35% family history, 15% his career, 10% his rubbing elbows with church higher-ups?
A lot of what seems to get quoted from his book are juicy tidbits. What is the main substance?
It's at least 50% hyperbolic adjectives(i.e., glorious, wonderful, masterful, inspired, marvelous, too-sacred, etc.) with no corresponding details to explain what made the thing being mentioned glorious, wonderful, masterful, inspired, marvelous, too-sacred, etc.).
Nelson's bio is a ponderous parade of prosaic pomposity. OP is really taking one for the team slogging through the damn thing.
