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Originally posted by Please@Oct 2 2005, 05:07 PM
I hear it is a book of controversy..
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Not because of the author. Bushman is a scholar and historian of the highest order. He has written a number of books on LDS subjects. His book Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism shed some important and relevant light on JS and the beginings of the restoration. This new book will be a full treatment of Joseph Smith's life - probably, or most certainly, the most significant and important work on Smith to date.
If the book is controversial, that is because Joseph Smith was controversial. Any honest and controversial work about Smith will cover all the dicey stuff - like Bushman says... warts and all.