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English
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New Perspectives on the Mormon Past
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Faithful History : Essays on Writing Mormon History
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Salt Lake City
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Signature Books
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113-121
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Foster, from a non-Mormon view, gives his view of the past and future of Mormon historical writing. For the present state he feels that public calls from Church leaders to historians for 'sanitized, saccharine' accounts can only be counter-productive. And, 'the writing of good history is also necessary if the Mormon Church is to deal constructively with the new challences it faces.'