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English
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'The Truth is the Most Important Thing' : The New Mormon History According to Mark Hofmann
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St. George, Utah
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Dixie College Press
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This paper explores the question of motive in Mark Hofmann's forgery of early Mormon holographs, and asks why, if Hofmann could have sold non-revisionist documents he chose instead to create and sell revisionist documents. The author identifies the most significant forgeries, and indicates that he was also intending to create at least some of the 116 lost pages of the Book of Mormon. He says that Hofmann's philosophy was basically amoral, based on self-serving convenience. The implication is that Hofmann wanted not only to make money, but to present the 'truth' as he saw it. This implies that he wrote what he thought was probably the truth, but in the process distorted history.