Title: The Whole Truth?
Review: The breathless, sycophantic tone of the inside flap sets the tone of the book. "What would it have been like to have known the Prophet Joseph Smith, to have seen him face to face, to have heard his words?" Sounds like the start of a teenage romance novel to me. One star for sycophancy.However, the book is indeed Personal Writings of Joseph Smith, and not The Personal Writings of Joseph Smith, and so another star for honesty. These cherry-picked letters etc. are selected to make the Prophet the wholesome hero of Pioneer America, and the original documents are reproduced to show their verisimilitude. But so much has been omitted to produce this enviable man that the evidence would be shot down in court - remember, the truth, THE WHOLE TRUTH, and nothing but the truth? This book is good on number one and number three, but paints a happy picture only by ignoring number two.
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