Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith

Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 1400032806 ISBN13: 9781400032808 Release Date: June 2004 Publisher: Vintage Length: 432 Pages Weight: 0.85 lbs. Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.2" x 8.0" NATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the author of Into the Wild and Into Thin Air, this extraordinary work of investigative journalism takes readers inside America's isolated Mormon Fundamentalist communities. - Now an acclaimed FX limited series streaming on HULU. "Fantastic.... Right up there with In Cold Blood and The Executioner's Song." --San Francisco Chronicle 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; some 40,000 people still practice polygamy in these communities. At the core of Krakauer's 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 researc