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Hello, welcome to Mormon Stories. I'm your host for this evening, J. Nelson C.

Wright. And with me today is Jedadaya Rogers, who is a Mormon historian, or Western

historian, I should say, who's written about Mormonism. He's a co-editor of the

Utah Historical Quarterly author of Roads in the Wilderness, Conflict in

Canyon Country, editor of in the president's office, the diary of El John

Nuddle. And in particular, the thing we're going to talk about today, editor of

The Council of 50, a new documentary history from Signature Books. Jedadaya,

welcome to Mormon Stories. Thanks for having me. So we're going to be talking

about the Council of 50. We're going to talk about your book, but also about the

Council itself, since it doesn't pay to get to meta in life. And in thinking about

the Council of 50, I think this is an interesting topic for a lot of us. You know,

when I first started reading professional Mormon history, one of the first

things I ran into that let me know I was not home, that this wasn't the old

familiar Mormon history I was used to, was a reference to the Council of 50. You

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