Since the beginning of the Church, there have been former members who turn whistle-blower and have written exposés. In this episode we will do a review of the most impactful of these through history.
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- 1834 Mormonism Unvailed E.D. HOWE
- 1842 The History of the Saints or an Expose of Joe Smtih and Mormonism John C. Bennett
- 1844 Nauvoo Expositor William Law et al
- 1853 Biographical Sketches of Joseph Smith by His Progenitors Lucy Mack Smith
- 1855 Female Life Among the Mormons CH Clarke
- 1872 Exposé of Polygamy in Utah: A Lady’s Life among the Mormons Fanny Stenhouse
- 1873 The Rocky Mountain Saints: A Full and Complete History of the Mormons TBH Stenhouse
- 1876 Wife No 19 By Ann Eliza Young
- 1877 Mormonism Unveiled John D Lee
- 1904 Brigham’s Destroying Angel: Being the Life, Confession, and Startling Disclosures of the Notorious Bill Hickman, the Danite Chief of Utah
- 1945 No Man Knows my History Fawn Brodie
- 1950 The Mountain Meadows Massacre Juanita Brooks
- 1963 Mormonism: Shadow or Reality? Jerald and Sandra Tanner
- 1985 Studies of the Book of Mormon BH Roberts
- 1994, 1997, 2017, The Mormon Hierarchy Series Micheal Quinn
- 2002 Insider’s View Grant Palmer
- 2005 Rough Stone Rolling Richard Bushman
- 2013 CES Letter Jeremy Runnells
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While listening to the discussion of No Man Knows My History and Fawn Brodie and Mountain Meadows Massacre and Juanita Brooks,
in my mind I kept hearing Carah say,
Could any woman have written these books ?
Great episode
Thanks to all
I guess it’s a bit of nit picking, but I think it is an important nit. He was a counselor in the first presidency not the stake president. And a more definitive testimony can be found in the interviews of William Law by one Dr. Wyl in July 3, 1887 published before Law died in the Salt Lake Tribune. He documents for example and attempt to co-opt Law into a scheme to make Law a “substitute sexual partner for Ema.
just curious how “Joseph Smith- The First Mormon” didn’t make your list.