Like a train-wreck followed by a tornado followed by the Holocaust, the story of the Mormon Fundamentalist religion is confounding and nightmarish. Jon Krakauer focuses on the 1984 murder committed by Ron and Dan Lafferty of their brother’s wife and baby daughter. But to understand the case (or, to fully comprehend the amount of historic horror that backs it up), Krakauer unpacks the Mormon story from its inception.
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer
by Micah Ling
BookPunch, June 6, 2009
http://bookpunch.blogspot.com/2009/06/under-banner-of-heaven-story-of-violent.html
