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Title: Hoped for balanced view, got an attack piece.
Review: I've read the first several chapters so far and this book is nothing more than an attack on the character and intentions of Joseph Smith. It covers a large span of history in each chapter, but each chapter is only about 8-10 pages. In such little space, it leaves no room except to give a few quotes and then largely leave the author's biased view that Joseph was not inspired, a sexual miscreant and was ready to murder to hide it. So be it, I've seen such before, but this book should not purport to be a balanced view of the subject which is what I was looking for.
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