Category: Book Releases
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Major Problems of Mormonism (book release news)
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner We are pleased to announce the completion of our new book, Major Problems of Mormonism. Although our most comprehensive work, Mormonism—Shadow or Reality? has proved to be very effective in bringing many Mormons to the truth, it contains more material than some people wish to read. In addition, we have…
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Church Fights Back!
Mormon Leaders Very Upset by Charges of Cover-Up By Jerald and Sandra Tanner Three major books have now been written regarding Mark Hofmann’s cunning plan to deceive Mormon leaders and document experts with forged documents and the murders he subsequently committed to cover up the crimes. The first book to appear, written by Linda Sillitoe…
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New Hofmann Book
Linda Sillitoe and Allen D. Roberts have recently completed their long-awaited book [Salamander: The Story of the Mormon Forgery Murders] on Mark Hofmann, the man who murdered two people and forged Mormon documents. Although we feel that it is unfortunate that the authors have preserved some improper language used by investigators in the case, that…
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Falsifying History
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner We are very happy to report to our readers that all of Joseph Smith’s diaries are now available. A number of years ago we set out to publish Smith’s diaries. With the help of H. Michael Marquardt, who made the transcriptions from microfilms and photocopies, we were successful in printing…
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Mormonism—Shadow or Reality? (news of fourth edition, 1982)
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner Mormonism—Shadow or Reality?[1987 version. Reformatted in 2008.] [See our BOOKS page for the current edition ofMormonism—Shadow or Reality? (PDF)] 37,000 Copies Sold and Now a New Enlarged Edition A decade has passed since we published the 1972 edition of Mormonism—Shadow or Reality? Since that time a number of important discoveries…
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Hearts Made Glad — A Look at Mr. Petersen’s New Book
In our book Mormonism—Shadow or Reality? page 413, we said that “LaMar Petersen has prepared a manuscript entitled Hearts Made Glad. When this manuscript is published it will throw a great deal of light on the Word of Wisdom and Joseph Smith’s attitude towards it.” We are now happy to announce that Mr. Petersen’s book…
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A Tremendous Success
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner In 1963 we published our most important work on Mormonism. A major publishing company predicted that it wouldn’t sell over 250 or 300 copies, but by 1965 Wallace Turner reported that we had sold “about 3,000 copies” (The Mormon Establishment, page, 157). It was not long after this that our…
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Mormonism—Shadow or Reality? (news of third edition, 1972)
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner [See our BOOKS page for the current edition ofMormonism—Shadow or Reality? (PDF)] In 1966 Wallace Turner, a correspondent for the New York Times, wrote the following: Dr. Thomas F. O’Dea, a sociologist at Columbia University, who wrote a major study called The Mormons when he taught at the University of…
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New Book – The Bible and Mormon Doctrine
A brief introduction to our book, “The Bible and Mormon Doctrine”