Bruce D Porter: 2 books

With worshipful reverence, we sing hymns and bear testimony of the one Being whose omniscience, power, and splendor allow him to reign as the King of Kings. In this eloquent and personal book, Elder Bruce D. Porter teaches and bears witness of Jesus Christ. He explores the feelings and spirit surrounding...

States make war, but war also makes states. As Publishers Weekly notes, “Porter, a political scientist at Brigham Young University, demonstrates that wars have been catalysts for increasing the size and power of Western governments since the Renaissance. The state’s monopoly of effective...