Ben Stein on the Texas Polygamy Raids
Today on CBS Sunday morning Ben Stein offered his opinion on the Texas raids.
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Richard L. Bushman: Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism
Bushman's first JS bio.Richard Lyman Bushman: Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling
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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
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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.
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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.
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