Full name: To the Rescue: The Biography of Thomas S. Monson

Author: Heidi S. Swinton Year: 2010 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Biographies, Non Fiction, Religion Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads

To the Rescue is the much-anticipated official biography of President Thomas S. Monson. Beginning with President Monson's family heritage and his early years in Salt Lake City, it included his vocational preparation and his career in the world of journalism. More important, this inspiring book recounts his lifetime of Church service. Called as a bishop at the age of twenty-two, as a mission president at thirty-one, and as a member of the Quorum of the Twelve at age thirty-six, he has traveled the globe to minister to the Saints for more than fifty years. This book shares many of his personal experience, from his visits behind the Iron Curtain to his contributions on the Scriptures Publication Committee and in the missionary and welfare areas; it also provides up-to-the-minute information about his work as Church President. Filled with wonderful photographs and little-known accounts, this biography is a portrait of a leader who ministers both to the one and to the many, and who is completely dedicated to doing whatever the Lord prompts him to do. Similar books: To Heaven and Back by Mary C. Neal Pastrix by Nadia Bolz-Weber Mother Angelica by Raymond Arroyo Go Forward with Faith by Sheri L. Dew Maurice and Therese by Patrick Ahern No Greater Love by Mother Teresa unPHILtered by Phil Robertson The Simple Faith of Mister Rogers by Amy Hollingsworth Letters and Papers From Prison by Dietrich Bonhoeffer Cave In The Snow by Vicki Mackenzie G. K. Chesterton by Dale Ahlquist A Man Called Peter by Catherine Marshall The Life You Save May Be Your Own by Paul Elie Journal of a Soul by Pope John XXIII John Paul the Great by Peggy Noonan St. Francis of Assisi by Omer Englebert Pope John Paul II by Tad Szulc God's Brothel by Andrea Moore-Emmett Zealot by Reza Aslan Traveling Mercies by Anne Lamott