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19th-century tabloids couldn't get enough of the Latter-day Saints.
This book, along with scores of cartoons, newspaper articles and dime-store novels, was part of a burgeoning, and popular, genre of anti-Latter-day Saint literature that was billed as "exposé,"
AQS251294 Brigham Young (1801-77) the Great American Family Man (litho) by American School, (19th century); American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA; (add.info.: the second prophet and president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; church allows polygamy and Young himself had 56 wives and 56 children;); © Courtesy, American Antiquarian Society .
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