Sidney Rigdon: A Portrait of Religious Excess

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| author = Richard S. Van Wagoner

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| language = English

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| publisher = Signature Books

| pub_date = December 1994

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| pages = 640

| isbn = 978-1-56085-030-4

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Sidney Rigdon: A Portrait of Religious Excess is a 1994 biography of the early Latter Day Saint leader Sidney Rigdon written by Richard S. Van Wagoner. It is published by Signature Books.

The biography was recognized in reviews as the most comprehensive biography of Rigdon produced.David P. Harper, Howard K. Harper, and Steven C. Harper, [http://maxwellinstitute.byu.edu/publications/review/?vol=14&num=1&id=411 "Van Wagoner's Sidney Rigdon: A Portrait of Biographical Excess"], FARMS Review 14(1):261–274 (2002).John W. Welch, [http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayFulltext?type=1&fid=2308476&jid=CHH&volumeId=66&issueId=01&aid=2308472&bodyId=&membershipNumber=&societyETOCSession= "Book Review: Sidney Rigdon: A Portrait of Religious Excess"], Church History 66: 150–152 (1997). The book won awards from the Mormon History Association and the John Whitmer Historical Association[http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/lifestyle/50454913-80/utah-van-wagoner-mormon.html.csp "Utah, LDS historian won acclaim"], Salt Lake Tribune, 2010-10-12.Michael DeGroote, [https://web.archive.org/web/20101015040542/http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700072904/Richard-Van-Wagoner-historian-dies-at-64.html "Richard Van Wagoner, historian, dies at 64"], Deseret News, 2010-10-12. but was criticized by Mormon apologists as "defective" and one that "still leaves more to be desired".