The long wait for a full-length biography of Frank J. Cannon is over. Val Holley's lively, well-written, and carefully-researched Frank J. Cannon: Saint, Senator, and Scoundrel brings Frank to life in vivid, controversial colors, making up for the deficiencies of Cannon's political autobiography, Under the Prophet in Utah: The National Menace of a Political Priestcraft.
Holley provides the full chronology of Frank's fascinating life with important detailed information and analysis. Holley describes the profound influence on young Frank by two senior leaders in the LDS church—his father, George Q. Cannon, and apostle Franklin D. Richards, to whom Frank was closely related through his mother and for whom he was named. Frank went to live and work with the Richards family in Ogden when he was thirteen years old (George Q. later regretted his decision to permit this) and he ever after claimed Ogden as his home town. There, Frank...
