Sounding Brass
(Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1963): 249 pp.; CWHN 11:407-727. This book carries the subtitle “Informal Studies in the Lucrative Art of Telling Stories About Brigham Young and the Mormons” and is a response to Irving Wallace’s The Twenty-seventh Wife (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1961). A few historians have been annoyed because Nibley pointed out …