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Just wanted to let everyone know that I have started doing some freelance writing for a local weekly paper The City Weekly. My first work is a book review of Paul Toscano's The Sacrament of Doubt. Read the review.
Richard L. Bushman: Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism
Bushman's first JS bio.
Richard Lyman Bushman: Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling
Award winning biography from a Columbia University emeritus professor of history.
Dan Vogel: Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet
A pious/fraud interpretation from a detailed scholar.
Linda King Newell and Linda Avery: Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale Smith
Great biography of the first wife of JS by two excellent scholars.
Fawn M. Brodie: No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith
A seminal classic that began the serious study of JS life.
Big Love - The Complete First Season
The HBO series following the lives of modern polygamists in Utah.
B. Carmon Hardy: Doing The Works of Abraham: Mormon Polygamy : Its Origin, Practice, and Demise
An amazing collection of original sources relating to the practice and belief in polygamy, with commentary and introductions by the author.
Todd Compton: In Sacred Loneliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith
An award winning book providing the biographies of 33 of Joseph Smith's wives.
Brian C. Hales: Modern Polygamy and Mormon Fundamentalism
An detailed study on Mormon fundamentalist polygamy in the 20th century.
Richard S. Van Wagoner: Mormon Polygamy: A History
A good introduction to polygamy from Joseph Smith to current practices.
Irwin Altman: Polygamous Families in Contemporary Society
How do modern polygamists live? This book will give some answers.
B. Carmon Hardy: Solemn Covenant: The Mormon Polygamous Passage
A well written study of the history of Mormon polygamy.
Sarah Barringer Gordon: The Mormon Question: Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America
An award winning study about polygamy and the legal issues that resulted.
Will Bagley: Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows
The best recent study of MMM. An excellent book that is challenging and honest.
Judith Freeman: Red Water: A Novel
An amazing novel about the aftermath of the MMM seen through the eyes of the wives of John D. Lee.
Juanita Brooks: The Mountain Meadows Massacre
The groundbreaking book that changed Mormon history. A classic that every thinking person should read.
Good to see you in the City Weekly! A cool paper is now even cooler.
Nice review as well.
Posted by: adam | December 04, 2007 at 11:55 PM
Nice review. I look forward to reading this. I enjoyed Toscano's previous essay collection, The Sanctity of Dissent.
Posted by: Matt Thurston | December 11, 2007 at 12:16 PM