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− | {{Epigraph| At least once a decade, it seems, someone publishes a book about the Latter-day Saints without taking the necessary "trouble" to adequately research the subject...[Such authors] merit the Mormon History Association['s]..."Worst Book" award....Ernest H. Taves, a Massachusetts-based psychiatrist with both Mormon and Mennonite roots, would be a strong candidate for the same award this year.<br>—Kenneth H. Godfrey{{ | + | {{Epigraph| At least once a decade, it seems, someone publishes a book about the Latter-day Saints without taking the necessary "trouble" to adequately research the subject...[Such authors] merit the Mormon History Association['s]..."Worst Book" award....Ernest H. Taves, a Massachusetts-based psychiatrist with both Mormon and Mennonite roots, would be a strong candidate for the same award this year.<br>—Kenneth H. Godfrey <ref>{{Dialogue1|author=Kenneth H. Godfrey|article=Not Enough Trouble, review of Trouble Enough: Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon by Ernest H. Taves and Joseph Smith and the Origins of the Book of Mormon by David Persuitte|date=Fall 1986|vol=19|num=3|start=139}}</ref>}} |
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− | {{Epigraph| So much has been written on Nauvoo, John C. Bennett, plural marriage, the Council of Fifty, and the martyrdom—all of which Taves failed to research-- that I wonder just why this book was published. It has very few insights, no innovative interpretations, and no evidence of new documents on the Prophet and the Latter-day Saint movement. It is unfortunate that, at a time when so many really fine studies of Mormonism are appearing, Taves wrote and Prometheus Press published such an inferior study. <br>—Kenneth H. Godfrey | + | {{Epigraph| So much has been written on Nauvoo, John C. Bennett, plural marriage, the Council of Fifty, and the martyrdom—all of which Taves failed to research-- that I wonder just why this book was published. It has very few insights, no innovative interpretations, and no evidence of new documents on the Prophet and the Latter-day Saint movement. It is unfortunate that, at a time when so many really fine studies of Mormonism are appearing, Taves wrote and Prometheus Press published such an inferior study. <br>—Kenneth H. Godfrey <ref>Godfrey, 141–142.</ref>}} |
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A FAIR Analysis of: Trouble Enough: Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon A work by author: Ernest H. Taves
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At least once a decade, it seems, someone publishes a book about the Latter-day Saints without taking the necessary "trouble" to adequately research the subject...[Such authors] merit the Mormon History Association['s]..."Worst Book" award....Ernest H. Taves, a Massachusetts-based psychiatrist with both Mormon and Mennonite roots, would be a strong candidate for the same award this year.
—Kenneth H. Godfrey [1]
So much has been written on Nauvoo, John C. Bennett, plural marriage, the Council of Fifty, and the martyrdom—all of which Taves failed to research-- that I wonder just why this book was published. It has very few insights, no innovative interpretations, and no evidence of new documents on the Prophet and the Latter-day Saint movement. It is unfortunate that, at a time when so many really fine studies of Mormonism are appearing, Taves wrote and Prometheus Press published such an inferior study.
—Kenneth H. Godfrey [2]
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