Singular, Stephen.    frey50        <br/><br/>
When men become gods :  Mormon polygamist Warren Jeffs, his cult of fear, and the women who fought back / 
Stephen Singular. 
 - 1st ed. 
 - New York :  St. Martin's Press,  2008. 
 - 294 p., [8] p. of plates :  ill. ;  25 cm. 
<br/><br/> As the self-proclaimed prophet of the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints, a sect of Mormonism based in southern Utah, Warren Jeffs held sway over thousands of followers for nearly a decade. In addition to coercing young girls into polygamous marriages with older men, Jeffs reputedly took scores of wives himself. The media were shunned, creating a hidden community where polygamy was prized above all else. But in 2007, after a two-year FBI manhunt, Jeffs was convicted as an accomplice to rape. Journalist Singular traces Jeffs's rise to power and the concerted effort that led to his downfall. It was a movement championed by law enforcement, but more vocally by a group of former wives seeking to liberate young women from the arranged marriages they'd once endured. The book offers new revelations into a nearly impenetrable enclave--a place of inbreeding and eerie seclusion, and a tradition almost a century old.--From publisher description. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780312372484 0312372485 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2008006670 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Jeffs, Warren, 1955- 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Corporate Names: </label><br/>Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Polygamy--United States.<br/>Mormons--United States<br/>Forced marriage--United States.<br/>Mormon fundamentalism--United States.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>306.84/23092  B   9