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Seventh-generation Mormon royalty. Closeted for forty years. A teaching career ended by the politics of fear. A marriage that crossed every line the governing narrative said couldn't be crossed. And a research program that anticipated the most consequential governance crisis of the twenty-first century — a decade before anyone else saw it coming.
Forbidden Friends traces four hundred years of colonialism through one family's DNA — from Puritan Massachusetts to polygamous Utah to the Driftless corridor of the Mississippi valley — and asks what it costs to grow up inside a narrative generation system whose authority you cannot question. Willful isolation. Enforced segregation. Rejection of enlightenment. The fourth edition integrates research endnotes connecting each chapter to the governance framework that the lived experience gave rise to.
The lions have finally found their historian.
Seventh-generation Mormon royalty. Closeted for forty years. A teaching career ended by the politics of fear. A marriage that crossed every line the governing narrative said couldn't be crossed. And a research program that anticipated the most consequential governance crisis of the twenty-first century — a decade before anyone else saw it coming.
Forbidden Friends traces four hundred years of colonialism through one family's DNA — from Puritan Massachusetts to polygamous Utah to the Driftless corridor of the Mississippi valley — and asks what it costs to grow up inside a narrative generation system whose authority you cannot question. Willful isolation. Enforced segregation. Rejection of enlightenment. The fourth edition integrates research endnotes connecting each chapter to the governance framework that the lived experience gave rise to.
The lions have finally found their historian.
