In Mormon Circles: Gentiles, Jack Mormons, and Latter Day Saints

James Coates. Addison Wesley Publishing Company, $14 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-201-60811-3

Coates, an admirer of Mormonism, presents an absorbing report on controversy within the Latter-Day Saints' community and the history and tenets of America's fastest-growing religion. (May)

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