About this product

Product Identifiers

PublisherSignature Books, LLC

ISBN-101560854510

ISBN-139781560854517

eBay Product ID (ePID)15057267745

Product Key Features

Number of Pages586 Pages

Publication NameChosen Path: a Memoir

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2023

SubjectChristianity / Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormon), Personal Memoirs

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaReligion, Biography & Autobiography

AuthorD. Michael Quinn

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.7 in

Item Weight32.1 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

Dewey Edition23

Grade FromTwelfth Grade

Dewey Decimal289.3092

Table Of ContentForeword Publisher's Introduction 1.Early Childhood, 1944-1949 2.Emerging Identities, 1950-1953 3.Father Figures, 1954-1956 4.Secrets and Revelations, 1957-1959 5.Budding Intellectual, 1960-1961 6.Internal Conflicts, 1962-1963 7.Baseball Baptisms and Disbelief, 1963-1964 8.Spiritual Promptings, 1965-1966 9.Accelerating Religious Path, 1967-1968 10.Counterintelligence in Germany, 1968-1969 11.New Mormon History, 1970-1972 12.Historical Breakthroughs, 1972-1973 13.Academic Gambles, 1973-1975 14.High Hopes and Growing Fears, 1976-1977 15.A Path of Conflict, 1978-1980 16.Apostles vs. Historians, 1980-1982 17.Fatal Shifts, 1983-1985 18.Farewells, 1986-1988 19.Out, 1988-1998 20.Chosen Path, 1993-2009 Publisher's Epilogue: Legacy Index About the Author

SynopsisAfter D. Michael Quinn's death in April 2021, his children found his remarkable, unpublished memoir in his home and entrusted Signature Books with its publication. Relying on his journals, primary research, and reminiscences, Quinn shares his life story as few have heard it-from his father's hiding of his true name and Mexican identity, to his upbringing by his abusive grandmother, to his choice to closet his homosexuality, to his undying commitment to his faith and its history. From the age of nine, Quinn felt convicted he would one day serve as an apostle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He chose the path he believed would take him there, eventually living as a straight LDS family man in a mixed-orientation marriage. In the 1970s and 1980s he became a BYU professor and one of Mormonism's most promising, prolific, and respected historians. But his uncompromising commitment to total honesty about his religion's history, along with his homosexuality, set him on a collision course with church leaders and the end of his seemingly idyllic Mormon life. Throughout his telling, Quinn unflinchingly opens up about his feelings and experiences that shaped his enigmatic life.

LC Classification NumberBX8695.Q46