
The Colony
Faith and Blood in a Promised Land
Sally Denton(Author)
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Published on 29. July 2022
Book
Hardback
288 pages
978-1-63149-807-7 (ISBN)
Description
A harmless, unassuming caravan of women and children was ambushed by masked gunmen in northern Mexico on 4 November 2019. In a massacre that produced international headlines, nine people were killed and five others gravely injured. The victims were members of the La Mora and LeBaron communities-fundamentalist Mormons whose forebears broke from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and settled in Mexico when polygamy was outlawed.
In The Colony, the best-selling investigative journalist Sally Denton picks up where initial reporting on the killings left off, and in the process tells the violent history of the LeBaron clan and their homestead, from the first polygamist emigration to Mexico in the 1880s to the LeBarons' internal blood feud in the 1970s to the family's recent alliance with the NXIVM sex cult. Drawing on sources within Colonia LeBaron itself, Denton creates a mesmerising work of investigative journalism in the tradition of Under the Banner of Heaven and Going Clear.
In The Colony, the best-selling investigative journalist Sally Denton picks up where initial reporting on the killings left off, and in the process tells the violent history of the LeBaron clan and their homestead, from the first polygamist emigration to Mexico in the 1880s to the LeBarons' internal blood feud in the 1970s to the family's recent alliance with the NXIVM sex cult. Drawing on sources within Colonia LeBaron itself, Denton creates a mesmerising work of investigative journalism in the tradition of Under the Banner of Heaven and Going Clear.
Reviews / Votes
"Meticulously researched....The author couldn't have found a more bizarro clan to profile than the LeBarons, whose history of murdering family members, mental illness and incest rivals that of the Hapsburgs....Denton provides an excellent history of a polygamist subculture... [her] book is a testament to what happens when male power, under the guise of religious conviction, goes unchecked." -- Julia Scheeres - The New York Times Book ReviewMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
WW Norton & Co
Illustrations
23 black-and-white images
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 159 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
510 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-63149-807-7 (9781631498077)
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06/2022
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Person
Sally Denton is the author of nine books, including bestseller The Bluegrass Conspiracy, and the coauthor of a classic account of Las Vegas, The Money and the Power.