PrefacePart I: The National PictureIntroduction1. The Reed Smoot Hearings and the Theology of Politics: Perceiving an “American” Identity2. “Justice Is Never Permanently Defeated Anywhere”: Reed Smoot’s Confirmation Vote in the United States Senate3. Antipolygamy, the Constitution, and the Smoot Hearings4. Do I Hear an Echo? The Continuing Trial of the Mormon Church after Smoot’s RetentionPart II: The Local Picture5. My Darling Allie, Your Reed: Letters 1903–19076. Under the Gun at the Smoot Hearings: Joseph F. Smith’s Testimony7. “Some Divine Purpose”: Carl A. Badger and the Reed Smoot Hearings8. “A Systematic, Orderly, and Unusually Intelligent Fight”: Senator Fred T. Dubois and Reed SmootAppendix: LDS Officials Involved with New Plural Marriages from September 1890 to February 1907ContributorsIndex