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Emma Smith and polygamy

Source(s) of the criticism

Critical sources	Valeen Tippetts Avery Fawn M. Brodie, No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1945), 306. ( Index of claims ) "Absence of Polygamy In LDS Manual Stirs Controversy," The Salt Lake Tribune (5 April 1998): C3. George D. Smith, Nauvoo Polygamy: "...but we called it celestial marriage" (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2008), 473. ( Index of claims , (Detailed book review)) Simon Southerton, Losing a Lost Tribe: Native Americans, DNA, and the Mormon Church (Salt Lake City, UT: Signature Books, 2004) 137. ( Index of claims ) Jerald and Sandra Tanner, The Changing World of Mormonism (Moody Press, 1979), 233.( Index of claims ) Jerald and Sandra Tanner, "Covering Up Mormon Polygamy," Salt Lake City Messenger 94 (August 1998).

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