Talk:Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling

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"Rough Stone Rolling makes use of much recent research and is the most complete biography of Joseph Smith published to date, but it lacks the literary distinction of Fawn Brodie, No Man Knows My History (1945), a biography that presents Smith as a gifted fraud.

This strikes me as a pretty non-objective statement, regardless of it being sourced to a literary review. I would remove the comparison altogether, and perhaps replace it with a line or two on how the book was received by the public/critics...

71.112.200.213 06:53, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

Feel free to try a revision, but I believe adequate documentation to back the statement appears in the notes.--John Foxe 09:58, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

This seems like a really one-sided assessment of the book. All the citations that are listed are criticisms, and much of the language in the article is unnecessarily subjective. This article needs some work. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.100.170.190 (talk) 15:53, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Book Cover

Could an image of the book cover be added? Does that require permission from the publisher? Unjedai 15:02, 13 June 2007 (UTC)