first edition
1968 · Salt Lake City, Utah
by Benson, Ezra Taft
Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret Book Company, 1968. First Printing. Near Fine. 13 pp. Pamphlet [21.5 cm]; red, white, and blue saddle-stapled wraps. Faint previous owner's ink stamp on front wrap near the top. Ezra Taft Benson (1899-1994) was the thirteenth prophet of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and was the United States Secretary of Agriculture (1953-1961) under President Dwight D. Eisenhower. The text of this pamphlet was adapted from an address given in the Salt Lake Mormon Tabernacle on September 29, 1967. It has been noted that some of the words and tones of this printed version of Benson's talk were softened and toned down to (truncated)