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Hardcover: 9780385509510, 1 edition (Doubleday, July 1, 2003), cover price $30.00; and 9780375432217, Large print edition (Random House Large Print, July 1, 2003), cover price $28.00
Paperback: 9781400032808, Reprint edition (Anchor Books, June 1, 2004), cover price $16.00
CD/Spoken Word: 9780739323663, Abridged edition (Random House, May 3, 2005), cover price $19.99; and 9780739306567, Abridged edition (Random House, July 1, 2003), cover price $29.95
Cassette/Spoken Word: 9780739306574, Abridged edition (Random House, July 1, 2003), cover price $25.95
Prebinding: 9781439566640, Reprint edition (Paw Prints, October 20, 2008), cover price $23.95
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
Traces the events that surrounded the 1984 murder of a woman and her child by fundamentalist Mormons Ron and Dan Lafferty, exploring the belief systems and traditions, including polygamy, that mark the faith's most extreme factions and what their practices reflect about the nature of religion in America. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 300,000 first printing.
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Product Description: Jon Krakauerâs literary reputation rests on insightful chronicles of lives conducted at the outer limits. He now shifts his focus from extremes of physical adventure to extremes of religious belief within our own borders, taking readers inside isolated American communities where some 40,000 Mormon Fundamentalists still practice polygamy. Defying both civil authorities and the Mormon establishment in Salt Lake City, the renegade leaders of these Taliban-like theocracies are zealots who answer only to God.
At the core of Krakauerâs book are brothers Ron and Dan Lafferty, who insist they received a commandment from God to kill a blameless woman and her baby girl. Beginning with a meticulously researched account of this appalling double murder, Krakauer constructs a multi-layered, bone-chilling narrative of messianic delusion, polygamy, savage violence, and unyielding faith. Along the way he uncovers a shadowy offshoot of Americaâs fastest growing religion, and raises provocative questions about the nature of religious belief.
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