Come all without, come all within,
You'll not see nothing like the mighty Quinn.
--- Bob Dylan
If that tune doesn't ring a bell, you're probably too young to really understand polygamy, but you can still try. Go read the online copy of D. Michael Quinn's essay entitled LDS Church Authority and New Plural Marriages, 1890-1904 (also here in 10 parts with pop-ups). This article, published in Dialogue in 1985, really blew the lid off of post-Manifesto polygamy.
It also kind of blew the lid off of Quinn's career at BYU, which apparently had not seen nothing like D. Michael Quinn. For a revealing essay on Quinn's experience as a Mormon historian, go read the full online text of his autobiographical essay On Being a Mormon Historian (and its Aftermath), a chapter in a collection of essays entitled Faithful History (Signature Books, 1992).
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