Merina Smith graduated from the University of Colorado, raised five children, then returned to graduate school, earning a PhD from the University of California at San Diego in 2011. She currently researches and writes as an independent historian. She currently resides in San Diego with her husband, legal scholar Steven Smith.
"Others, including myself, have never adequately explained the
emergence of polygamy ideologically. Smith does so brilliantly,
meticulously tracing the factors that overcame resistance to the
doctrine among the LDS faithful. She made it possible for me to
understand my own ancestors' rationale in adopting a way of life
that so offended their Victorian sensibilities."
--Janet Bennion, author of Polygamy in Primetime "...A valuable
contribution to the ongoing scholarly dialogue on Joseph Smith's
practice of and teachings on polygamy."
--Todd M. Compton, UHQ
"Smith's book is compelling and lucid...it is the first book to
explicitly examine why Mormon men and women were willing to enter
into polygamy and the mechanisms that were used to compel them to
do so."
--Amanda Hendrix-Komoto, Montana: The Magazine of Western History
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