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A few years ago my mother who is scholarly wrote an essay that explains the history of Mormonism and their beliefs. She published the essay as an ebook on Kindle. The book gives analyses into the unlikely explanation that Joseph Smith actually found the golden plates. It is likely that the golden plates, if there were any plates to begin with, were likely just gold colored plates that were made in the 1800s. In other words, Joseph did not translate real scripture using stones in the hat. There is a theory that Smith plagiarized the Book of Mormon from a stolen unpublished manuscript that belonged to the author Solomon Spalding. Mormonism teachings that God was once men and that men can become Gods. Also, women can only become Gods if their husbands allow them to. In early Mormonism polygamy was commonly practiced out West by Joseph Smith and his followers. These teachings are blasphemous and Smith started a cult to make himself economically and politically powerful. Smith started a fraudulent currency and made money by starting Mormonism. Smith was wanted in Ohio for fraudulent banking practices. I have posted a link to the essay here and you can buy it at this link.
During the first few decades after Mormonism started a great deal of literature was published criticizing Mormonism. Some of this work was published within a few years of the founding of Mormonism. Much of this literature is available for free at archive.org and over a year ago my mother began editing some pieces from amongst that body of literature. She published them on kindle as ebooks. This literature not only criticizes Mormonism and its beliefs. It also describes what the spread of Mormonism was like during that era. Many of the essays are short and between about 20 to 40 pages in length. They are insightful for studying the history of Mormonism and its important to preserve this literature for future generations. I posted a link to the site where you can buy the reprints that my mother published below.
Here is the link to both my mother’s essay “Mormon Fraud and the reprints she has published. I know that Dr. Farrell and many Gizars do not like ebooks or Amazon, but my mother was unable to find an alternative platform that she could publish these books on affordably. You would have to sell many copies of a books in order to make money publishing it on a self-publish platform such as Lulu.
https://www.amazon.com/s?i=stripbooks&rh=p_27%3AKristan+Payne&s=relevancerank&text=Kristan+Payne&ref=dp_byline_sr_book_2