American Zion provides a clear and factual summary of the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints from its inception to 2024. It presents perspectives on important historical moments and focuses heavily on the ideological and historical debates within the Church in the 20th century that members often overlook.

The book focuses on the Church's history within the United States of America, even though its membership is greater outside of the USA. It presents a history that made some mistakes but shows how it has evolved and shaped itself to be stronger, perhaps because of those mistakes.

Women’s involvement in the Church is better reflected in this history of Mormonism than in many other histories focused on the same topic, and it is interesting to see that it is something that most denominations have had to deal with.

The author presents the church as one that its internal conflict has always defined, yet the story also shows that it has become stronger as time has passed.