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  • LDS books: Oxford Press finds profits in prophets

    01/15/2010 10:13:03 AM PST · by Colofornian · 10 replies · 300+ views
    Salt Lake Tribune ^ | Jan. 15, 2010 | Peggy Fletcher Stack
    Bouncing around on the trend-tossed seas of 21st-century book publishing, Mormon scholarship seems to have docked at the granddaddy of all prestigious presses: Oxford University. By all accounts, the unlikely partnership between the oldest university in the English-speaking world and an upstart American faith seems to be working. Mormon writers, particularly historians, get the academic credibility they crave and Oxford sells a lot of books. Two years ago, Oxford University Press published Massacre at Mountain Meadows by Ronald W. Walker, Richard E. Turley Jr. and Glen M. Leonard, three LDS Church scholars. The harrowing account of the 1857 slaughter of...