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Wednesday Night Book Thread

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Zimriel6/10/2009 9:53:49 pm PDT

Under The Banner Of Heaven is an awesome book.

If you’re interested in old-school Mormonism, I also recommend:
- Will Bagley, “Blood of the Prophets” (Mountain Meadows);
- Richard Abanes, “One Nation Under Gods” (Mormon history by a fundamentalist Christian - but done very well for all that);
- Dan Vogel & Brent Metcalfe, “American Apocrypha” (essays);
- Sarah Gordon, “The Mormon Question” (on how the US dealt with the faith);
- Sir Richard Burton, “City of the Saints” (yes, the same guy who snuck into Mecca in the 19th century! he snuck into Salt Lake too)

A lot of this, I found in Salt Lake City’s Barnes & Noble.

I have the Doctrine & Covenants, Articles of Faith, Joseph Smith Translation of the KJV and Unpublished Revelations floating around here too…

There’s another one - “Who Wrote The Book Of Mormon?” by Cowdrey and Davis and Vanick - those guys think it might have been plagiarised off of one Mr Spaulding’s unpublished novel.

And I’m told D Michael Quinn’s books are pretty good, too. And Orson Pratt had some … interesting ideas…