True Crime
Under the Banner of Heaven
Jon Krakauer
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Krakauer uses one horrific murder by fundamentalist brothers to explore how absolute religious certainty can license atrocity.
An investigation of the 1984 murder of a woman and her infant by two brothers who believed they had received a revelation to kill, set against a history of Mormon fundamentalism and violence.
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