A promising American and Latter-day Saint historian, Park places the Nauvoo story within the American context and argues that Nauvoo “failed” because it was too religious, too priesthood theocratic, too undemocratic and frankly too un-American for a rough and tumble American frontier democracy.
https://www.mormondialogue.org/topic/76011-ben-park%E2%80%99s-american-zion/

