I read this about 6 months ago. I'd been wanting to read this one for years and finally got around to it and was pretty disappointed. I didn't enjoy the format of the book at all. It's this weird conversation format. In the first portion of the book, he is a Chairman who is interviewing anti-Mormon authors where they quote anti statements about Joseph Smith's character. The second portion is the same but focuses on Joseph's money digging and picks out all the contradictions. The third and final part is a group of reporters interviewing an anti author who claimed Joseph got duped by a fake document and again points out all the ridiculous things with that claim. The fake conversational format got old for me pretty quick and distracted a lot from the topics being discussed. I would have enjoyed it a lot more if everything was presented in Nibley's usual scholarly format. Also, most of the money-digging portion and stuff about the seer stone felt very outdated. Nibley, of course, was working with information available at the time. This just isn't really a book that has much staying power.
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