Category: Modern Microfilm and UTLM
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15,000 Books Met With Silence
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner In the last issue of the Salt Lake City Messenger we announced that we had sold over 10,000 copies of our major work Mormonism—Shadow or Reality? We are now happy to report that almost 15,000 copies have been sold. Mormon leaders seem to feel that it is best to ignore…
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The Book that Can Not Exist!
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner Psychiatrists tell us that the inability to face reality leads to many serious emotional problems. Those who are honest with themselves must admit that at sometime during their life they have had difficulty facing reality. Some of Richard Nixon’s greatest problems seem to stem from his inability to face reality.…
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Repudiates Book of Mormon
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner After we found serious problems with the Utah Mormon Church, we joined a group known as the Church of Christ—sometimes called the “Lukites.” This is a small group which is not to be confused with the large Church of Christ nor the Church of Christ—Temple Lot. Although this group rejected…
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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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The Mormon Kingdom
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner In working on our new book, The Case Against Mormonism, we have decided that we have so much material that it will be necessary for us to write still another book. This book will be entitled The Mormon Kingdom. Because of the limited amount of space we can only present…
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The Case Against Mormonism
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner Sometime ago we announced that we were working on a book which we felt would be one of the most revealing works ever written on the subject of Mormonism. Because of a lack of money and time we have not been able to do much on this work. We now…
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The Mormon Establishment
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner Wallace Turner, former Pulitzer Prize winner and correspondent for The New York Times, has now completed a book entitled The Mormon Establishment. This book will probably be one of the largest-selling books concerning Mormonism since Fawn Brodie’s No Man Knows My History. In fact, the following statement by Fawn Brodie…
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Our Plans for the Future
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner We hope that by selling these books we will be able to pay off our loans, and, if it is possible, to keep our equipment. We hope to spend some time in research and writing, and also to continue the Salt Lake City Messenger. After that the Lord may call…