An Insider's View of Mormon Origins

7 best books like An Insider's View of Mormon Origins (Grant H. Palmer): Baby Laughs: The Naked Truth About the First Year of Mommyhood, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling, Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet, In Sacred Loneliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith, Early Mormonism and the Magic World View, Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale Smith, Belly Laughs: The Naked Truth About Pregnancy and Childbirth

Baby Laughs: The Naked Truth About the First Year of Mommyhood

Author	Jenny McCarthy
ISBN	0452287197

Jenny McCarthy’s hilarious, no-holds-barred personality has made her an instantly recognizable TV personality and a bestselling author. In Baby Laughs she examines the full range of challenges that new mothers face, including:
* The humiliations of postnatal “numbing spray,”...

Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling

Author	Richard L. Bushman
ISBN	1400077532

Founder of the largest indigenous Christian church in American history, Joseph Smith published the 584-page Book of Mormon when he was twenty-three and went on to organize a church, found cities, and attract thousands of followers before his violent death at age thirty-eight. Richard Bushman, an...

Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet

Author	John G. Turner
ISBN	0674049675

Brigham Young was a rough-hewn craftsman from New York whose impoverished and obscure life was electrified by the Mormon faith. He trudged around the United States and England to gain converts for Mormonism, spoke in spiritual tongues, married more than fifty women, and eventually transformed a...

In Sacred Loneliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith

Author

Todd M. Compton

Beginning in the 1830s, at least thirty-three women married Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism. These were passionate relationships which also had some longevity, except in cases such as that of two young sisters, one of whom was discovered by Joseph’s first wife, Emma, in a locked bedroom with...

Early Mormonism and the Magic World View

Author	D. Michael Quinn
ISBN	1560850892

In this ground-breaking book, D. Michael Quinn masterfully reconstructs an earlier age, finding ample evidence for folk magic in nineteenth-century New England, as he does in Mormon founder Joseph Smith’s upbringing. Quinn discovers that Smith’s world was inhabited by supernatural creatures...

Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale Smith

Author	Linda King Newell
ISBN	0252062914

Mormonism has had a bit of a schizophrenic relationship with Emma Smith. Over 150 years, she's been seen as everything from a "devil" to the epitome of the stereotypical selfless at all times, saintly, angelically feminine Mormon woman (the apparent most-favored status of Mormonism today given some...

Belly Laughs: The Naked Truth About Pregnancy and Childbirth

Author	Jenny McCarthy
ISBN	0738210072

Oh, the joys of pregnancy! There's the gassiness, constipation, queasiness, and exhaustion, the forgetfulness, crankiness, and the constant worry. Of course, no woman is spared the discomforts and humiliations of pregnancy, but most are too polite to complain or too embarrassed to talk about them....