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Miles Harvey: The King of Confidence (Hardcover, 2020, Little, Brown and Company)

A history of the life and times of James Strang, a 'prophet' who tried to …

Good, But Not Great

It's an interesting read, more for the history of the mid-19th Century and its bizarre parallels with early 21st Century America. Newspapers were the social media of the time and James Strang took full advantage of creating his story as a lawyer, legislator, prophet, pirate, and 'King of Heaven and Earth'.

The writing wasn't as good as I hoped, but the story is pretty amazing.