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The Story of the Latter-day Saints
The Story of the Latter-day Saints is a single-volume history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) by James B. Allen and Glen M. Leonard, first published in 1976.
Overview.
The authors summarised the tone of their work by identifying four recurring themes that emerged throughout "The Story of the Latter-day Saints": 
1. The Latter-day Saints were primarily religiously motivated.
2. The
Arrington sent a message to the publisher with his regrets that the article's format was unfortunate.
While many readers praised the division's publications, some members criticized the new histories. In a meeting with institute teachers, Ezra Taft Benson, then president of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, obliquely criticized some of the terms used in "The Story of the Latter-day Saints", like "primitivist" and "communitarian". After the publication of Dean C. Jessee's "Letters of Brigham Young to His Sons