When it comes to bigotry, African-Americans were not the only targets of Southern white hatred in the United States. Throughout the nineteenth century, religious intolerance, while not as strong as its racial counterpart, was sufficiently powerful to provoke a special Southern fondness for violence. Mormons were the main target, and Patrick Q. Mason's well-researched and well-organised book is likely to be the best account for decades to come. Whether or not Mormons deserve to be called Christian has long been a subject of debate, but for many a Southern Baptist polygamy violated God's commandments on the family, Mormon theology represented the appearance of the AntiChrist, Mormon missionary work was threatening, and Mormon political activity was subversive. In 1877 an Alabama Mormon found a note on his gate claiming that his faith was ‘the most deadly engine that could be plied against civil and religious liberty and the most dangerous to our Republic (p. 114)’. It was due to sentiments such as these that by the 1880s acts of violence against Mormons in the South peaked but did not disappear throughout the rest of the century. While it is true that Southern religious bigotry extended to Jews and Catholics as well, the Mormon side of the story has not been well told, at least until now. This book fills an important gap in our understanding of American religious history. Given the fact that two leading Republican politicians of our time, Mitt Romney and John Huntsman, are Mormons in a Southern-dominated political party, Mason's book also has crucial relevance to the present day.