{"product_id":"educating-zion-gary-j-bergera-9781560855293","title":"Educating Zion: The Diaries of Ernest L. Wilkinson, 1952-1971","description":"During the twenty years he served as president of LDS Church-owned Brigham Young University (1951-71), Ernest L. Wilkinson transformed the school into a showplace of the church's educational values. \"More than any other single cause,\" his successor, Dallin H. Oaks, observed, \"[Wilkinson's] remarkable and relentless leadership . . . is the key to the present stature of Brigham Young University.\" Under Wilkinson, the student body grew more than four-fold to 25,000, the faculty tripled, colleges and departments more than doubled, library holdings increased nearly 500 percent, the number of buildings jumped twenty-fold, and as perhaps the most telling manifestation of Wilkinson's influence, annual LDS Church subsidies rose fifteen-fold to $22 million. His single-minded drive to mold BYU into the kind of institution he hoped would command the admiration of American academia permanently set the direction for Latter-day Saint higher education. As he presided over this academic landscape, Wilkinson produced about 5,000 pages of typed, single-spaced diaries---a literary creation that ranks among the most important diaries in the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Wilkinson also had access to the highest echelon of the church, writing of numerous meetings of the First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. \u003ci\u003eEducating Zion\u003c\/i\u003e assembles in one volume an annotated abridgement of those diary entries having the greatest interest to modern readers. The diaries are both a remarkable achievement and a phenomenal historical record whose importance cannot be overstated.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gary J. Bergera\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1560855290\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781560855293\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Signature Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/24\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 670\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.36d","brand":"Gary J. Bergera","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47452984967423,"sku":"9781560855293","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_61dbf71a-5d5b-4978-b394-9b6bd6039af0.jpg?v=1761931420","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/educating-zion-gary-j-bergera-9781560855293","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}