01400cam a2200277 i 4500 1056196608 TxAuBib 20200810120000.0 191011s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2019952531 9780316463591 hardcover 0316463590 hardcover KHPB556 eng rda DLC TxAuBib rda Harvey, Miles, author. The king of confidence : a tale of utopian dreamers, frontier schemers, true believers, false prophets, and the murder of an american monarch / Miles Harvey. New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2020. 313 p.; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier In the summer of 1843, James Strang, a charismatic young lawyer and avowed atheist vanished from a rural town in New York. Months later he reapppeared on the Midwestern frontier and converted to Mormonism. When Joseph Smith was murdered, Strang persuaded hundreds of his followers to follow him to an island in Lake Michigan where he declared himself a divine king. From there he controlled a fourth of the state of Michigan, establishing a pirate colony of corruption and fraud. 20200808. Strang, James. Utopias. Swindlers and swindling.