The Controversy Over Joseph Smith, by Tertius Chandler, 1 September 1952.

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The Controversy Over Joseph Smith, by Tertius Chandler, 1 September 1952.

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This 23-page typescript is a rebuttal to three Mormon responses to Fawn Brodie's 1945 biography of Joseph Smith, "No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith." The first section, 13 pages long, focuses on the 1946 pamphlet "No, Ma'am, That's Not History," written by Hugh Nibley. Chandler compares Nibley occasionally to another Mormon historian, B. H. Roberts, whose work he considers "a very capable defense." The second section (the final 9 pages) briefly addresses a March 1946 review by John A. Widtsoe in the Mormon monthly "Improvement Era," and then takes on an anonymous review published in the newspaper "Deseret News" on May 11, 1946. Chandler attributes the review to either Widtsoe or "Bowen" (probably Albert Ernest Bowen).

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