Who Really Wrote the Book of Mormon?: The Spalding Enigma23 reviews Wayne L. Cowdrey, Howard A. Davis, ... Concordia Publishing House, 2005 Excellent Book! + This book delivers what it promises! + "Not anti-anything, but pro-history"! + Common sense combined with thorough research             Mormonism Unmasked: Confronting the Contradictions Between Mormon Beliefs and True Christianity48 reviews R. Philip Roberts B&H Publishing Group, 1998 The Truth about Polygamy and Joseph Smith + Cuts through the confusion + Excellent and educational book Dr. Phillip Roberts in his book Mormonism Unmasked (Nashville: B & H Publishing, 1998) provides an easy to read and thorough understanding of historic Mormonism as it relates to the subject of polygamy in the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints (FLDS) church. This group broke from the Latter Day ...             Leaving the Saints: How I Lost the Mormons and Found My Faith202 reviews Martha Beck Crown, 2005 If you want to know about the mysterious Mormon church . . . + An original work from an original thinker I grew up in a town that was 98% Mormon. Being in the minority, I spent my youth being either left out because I wasn't Mormon or barraged by members of the church to become one of them. If they are anything, Mormons are as relentlessas they are exclusionary. So I thought I knew a just about ...             By His Own Hand Upon Papyrus: A New Look at the Joseph Smith Papyri52 reviews Charles M. Larson Inst for Religious Research, 1992 Apologist Mormons are on the run! + Mormon Identity Crists + Excellent introduction to the "book of abraham" + Sorry Joe, it ain't about Abraham! + Scholarly research with a touch of propaganda             The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power (Mormon Hierarchy)22 reviews D. Michael Quinn Signature Books, 1994 Good research + Richard Williamson + Another Great Book + Outstanding + Allows One to See the "Big Picture"             American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows, September 185740 reviews Sally Denton Knopf, 2003 Don't be Led Astray by Other Reviewers + A Real Page-Turner! Fascinating History of Strange Mormon Origins + Very well written, passionately documented, empathetic + A new look at one of America's bloodiest massacres             Quest for the Gold Plates25 reviews Stan Larson Freethinker Pr, 1997 Mormon Money once supported the search + An Excellent History of a Man who Lost his Faith Ferguson was a broken man when he died. He searched for decades for any eveidence that would confirm the Book of Mormon. All he got was heart ache. There is no evidence for Joe Smith's Book of Mormon, because it only exsited in Joe Smith's mind. In the end Mr. Ferguson was left to say " Joseph ...             The Mountain Meadows Massacre23 reviews Juanita Brooks University of Oklahoma Press, 1991 The slaughter revealed + Preventable Tragedy + AT LAST THE TRUTH + Classic             Losing a Lost Tribe: Native Americans, DNA, and the Mormon Church51 reviews Simon G. Southerton Signature Books, 2004 Sound, engaging, fascinating, enlightening + Good book, factual, apologists nightmare + Temple for the educated + Very.. Very Good             In Sacred Loneliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith32 reviews Todd Compton Signature Books, 1997 have you every pondered the question + DIDN'T want to believe it, but..... + The most informative book about Joseph Smith I have read The information that is presented in the book will give a perspective into the lives of early mormons that will open your eyes to the trials and problems associated with polygamy and polyandry. Modern mormons will find their eyes opened to information that the church would rather leave buried. The ...             No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith162 reviews Fawn M. Brodie Vintage, 1995 Well, I'm number 160 + Revolutionary material for those most impacted and probably least interested... + Requiem for a Heavyweight 159 Amazon reviewers have come before me to say what they think about this book by Fawn Brodie, No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith. Before I read this book, I knew nothing about Joseph Smith and only a little more about Fawn Brodie, as I was once a graduate student studying ...             Mormon America: The Power and the Promise73 reviews Richard Ostling, Joan K. Ostling HarperOne, 2000 Good Introduction to the Mormon Church. + Even handed treatment + An interesting neutral overview of the Mormon church + GUIDEBOOK TO AN AMERICAN FAITH             Mormonism Unveiled: The Life and Confession of John D. Lee, Including the Life of Brigham Young9 reviews John D. Lee Fierra Blanca Publications, 2001 The Evil of mormonism Revealed + An American Tragedy I first came across references to this book while reading Fawn Brodie's masterpiece, "No Man Knows My History," her brilliant biography of Joseph Smith, the lunatic charlatan who invented mormonism. I was quite surprised to find this book, Mormonism Unveiled, while browsing for something else to ...             Mormon Polygamy: A History21 reviews Richard S. Van Wagoner Signature Books, 1992 Excellent history about polygamy. + best factual book on polygamy + The History of the REAL "Big Love" + Very scholarly + A real page-turner of a history book             The Mormon Murders19 reviews Steven Naifeh, Gregory White Smith St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2005 What a page turner! + forgery as a religious weapon + An Eye Opener While I'm already familiar with the story of Mark Hofmann and his horrific acts of coldblooded violence, I was quite surprised at how fascinating this book is in retelling the story of his forgeries and murders, along with the gripping tales of the people (good and evil) who were involved. I ...             Out of Mormonism: A Woman's True Story53 reviews Judy Robertson Bethany House, 2001 I couldn't put it down. Exposes the secret teachings. + A well-written testimony from Mormonism to Christ Ths exposes the secret Mormon teachings which the neatly--dressed Brighamite missionaries will not tell you about. They're instructed "meat before milk" so, they won't tell you the surreal teachings, which diverge wildly from traditional Christianity, such as (1)the idea that a man may become ...             The God Makers: A Shocking Expose of What the Mormon Church Really Believes184 reviews Ed Decker, Dave Hunt Harvest House Publishers, 1997 not a bad place to start studying the LDS I have a long standing interest in Mormonism. I believe i read this when it first came out in 1984, but it was worth the time to reread. Mormonism is important for a number of reasons. Several touched on in the book, it's power, influence and money. it's rapid growth, it's similarity to real ...             Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows37 reviews Will Bagley University of Oklahoma Press, 2004 updates brooks + Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows + A difficult and gruesome tale. i found a reference to this in re-reading Krakauer's Under the Banner of Heaven. Juanita Brooks' Mountain Meadows Massacre had been, for me, the bible about these doings. Bagley has gained access to additional information (eg, letters, meeting notes, etc) and fleshes out the context of the ...             God's Brothel: The Extortion of Sex for Salvation in Contemporary Mormon and Christian Fundamentalist ...28 reviews Andrea Moore-Emmett Pince-Nez Press, 2004 Great Overview + GREAT TRANSACTION! Having read many books on the problem of polygomy this was a great overview of all the different groups practicing this lifestyle and stories of women who had escaped from this way of life.             One Nation Under Gods: A History of the Mormon Church116 reviews Richard Abanes Basic Books, 2003 A Spellbinding Book + Shows Differences Between Mormon and Christian Doctrine + Plus ça change... + If the LDS faith is true....