Steven Murphy
Published: 2021-03-25
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"George Q. Cannon's Journal" was mostly handwritten and covers about a fifty year span of time amounting to about 5000 pages in length. I extracted the nuggets from the complete Journal, the 50 year Journal, consisting of about 10% of the content, into a book that is over 500 pages long. It's title is "George Q. Cannon's Journal - Exceptional Excerpts." However, this 90 page volume, "Editor's Favorite Excepts," is an extract from the 500 page extraction or an extraction of an extraction, amounting to what I consider to be "pure cream" and is an excellent introduction into George's life and thinking. This second extraction is about 80 pages long with an orienting introduction, and a chronological overview of George Q. Cannon's life making it a mere 90 page volume. This shorter volume is designed for the reader who is not usually found reading long biographical books but wants to sample some of the thinking of Utah's very famous first U.S. Representative. After Brigham Young died, George Q. Cannon was the most well known and considered by some to be the "brains" of the LDS Church during the last third of the nineteenth century.