{"product_id":"the-ballad-of-juanita-brooks-lindsay-hansen-park-9781647693213","title":"The Ballad of Juanita Brooks","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn intimate biography of Utah's foremost historian\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor nearly a century, the Mountain Meadows Massacre was one of the American West's most carefully managed silences. Then Juanita Brooks told the truth. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn into the founding families of Mormonism, Brooks was a devout believer, mother, schoolteacher, folklorist, and historian. From her kitchen table in southern Utah's red rock desert, she pursued the truth about the 1857 massacre, tracking down confessions, diaries, and church records that powerful men hoped would remain buried. When her findings implicated Mormon leadership, she published them anyway, knowing it would cost her friendships, status, and peace. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis new biography is a generous but critical portrait of a truth-teller who believed accountability was a form of devotion. Here we see Brooks writing from her lived experience, weaving her intellectual rigor with the intimate realities of belief, motherhood, bodily autonomy, and purity culture. Her story, urgently relevant, belongs not only to the academy but to the shared cultural imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lindsay Hansen Park\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1647693217\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781647693213\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Utah Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/30\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 384\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Lindsay Hansen Park","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":49001116500223,"sku":"9781647693213","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-ballad-of-juanita-brooks-lindsay-hansen-park-9781647693213","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}