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Through A Fascinating Survey Of Mormon Encounters With The Media, Including Such Personalities And Events As The Osmonds, The Olympics, The Tabernacle Choir, Evangelical Christians, The Equal Rights Amendment, Sports Illustrated, And Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney, J.b. Haws Reveals The Dramatic Transformation Of The American Public's Perception Of Mormons In The Past Half-century-- A Perception Torn Between Admiration For Individual Mormons Seen As Friendly, Hard-working, And Family-oriented And Ambivalence Toward Institutional Mormonism Allegedly Secretive, Authoritarian, And Weird. Framing A Collage -- George W. Romney Is Ready And Has The Faith: Mormonism In The 1968 Presidential Campaign Season -- Church Rites Versus Civil Rights -- The Politics Of Family Values: 1972-1981 -- Familiar Spirits, Part One: The Early 1980s -- Familiar Spirits, Part Two: The 1980s And Early 1990s -- Standing A Little Taller: 1995-2005 -- Familiar Faces: Mormons And American Popular Culture In A New Millennium -- Suspicions--and Surprises: The 2008 Presidential Campaign Season -- I Don't Think This Is Really 'a Moment': Proposition 8, Plays On Broadway, Presidential Campaigns In 2012--and Paradoxes. J.b. Haws. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 391-402) And Index.