Mormon Enigma

By Linda King Newell, Valerie Tippetts Avery,

Book cover of Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale Smith

Book description

Mormon Enigma is the bestselling biography of Emma Hale Smith, wife of the Mormon prophet Joseph Smith. It was Joseph Smith who announced that an angel of the Lord had commanded him to introduce a 'new order of marriage.' And it was Emma Hale Smith who confronted the practice of…

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Why read it?

1 author picked Mormon Enigma as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Alex Beam

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This is an honest book about Joseph Smith’s first, and only “real” wife, Emma, who virulently opposed polygamy and, after Joseph’s death, convinced herself that it never existed. Emma is one of the three titans of Mormon history: she, her husband, and the subject of my next pick.

From Alex's list on Mormon history.