Essential Parley P. Pratt

One of the first members of the LDS church, Parley P. Pratt would eventually become one of Mormonism's most famous and widely-published defenders. He converted in late 1830 and was named to the original Quorum of Twelve Apostles five years later.Strong-willed and largely self-educated, he served several church missions, participated in the church military campaign against Missouri, quarreled with Joseph Smith over finances and narrowly escaped excommunication, founded the Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star in England, married several plural wives in Illinois, immigrated to the Salt Lake valley, and continued to fill additional overseas missions.Pratt is best known for his fiery apologetic writings -- A Voice of Warning, Key to the Science of Theology -- and for his autobiography, which was published posthumously in 1874 by his son, who also ghost-wrote most of it. Pratt nevertheless defined Mormon doctrine and theology for much of the church's first hundred years. He was killed in 1857 in Arkansas by the estranged husband of one of his polygamous wives.Pratt, Parley P. is the author of 'Essential Parley P. Pratt' with ISBN 9780941214841 and ISBN 0941214842.