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Whistle Stopper - Shattered Dreams: My Life as a Polygamist's Wife
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Manufacturer: Center Street
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 289.3092
EAN: 9781599957197
ISBN: 1599957191
Label: Center Street
Manufacturer: Center Street
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 400
Publication Date: 2007-08-22
Publisher: Center Street
Studio: Center Street
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Summary: Gripping, enlightening truth of brainwashing in the name of God
Comment: After the raid on the FLDS camp in Texas (April 2008), I set about to find out what these people and their religion is all about.
I first read "Escape" by Caroline Jessop and I finally could breathe when she and her children were safe from the perils of living a plural marriage with her husband.
"Shattered Dreams" was a book that I really got into as I lived and died each calamity of povery, loneliness, and hurt that Irene experienced in her 'marriage' to Verlan
as he erroneously tried to control his burgeoning family
until he could get them all into the kingdom of God.
My heart went out to Verlan because he was living and working in all that he knew and his responsibility to
each endeavor and to his family was just more than any one human should ever undertake. This is the error of the teaching of plural marriages.
I probably will not ever get to meet Irene on this earth but thanks to her genuine conversion into Christianity, I know I will be living an eternity of time 'over there' where we both will be and I'd just love to give her a great big hug of love as my Christian sister.
My word to Irene is this "Sister, enjoy whatever time of life you have on this earth for you have truly earned it and it is good to know that you finally have a person who loves you unconditionally just as Jesus loves us".
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Summary: This book is Awesome
Comment: I really enjoyed this book. I couldnt put it down. It was amazing to hear about this womans struggles and hardships. It made me truely appreciate my husband and how blessed we are. I have recomended it to everyone that I know.
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Summary: Page Turner!
Comment: I can't say enough good things about this book. It was so enthralling that I read it in two days. A true page turner in every sense of the phrase. I read it and then eagerly passed it on to my book loving sister to read. She loved it as well. Seriously...BUY THIS BOOK!
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Summary: A Should-Read for Everyone
Comment: Especially in view of recent events in Texas, this book is a should-read for everyone. I was a mainstream Mormom for 10 years, and THAT society is patriarchal enough, but what I found utterly chilling is that fundamentalist Mormonism is extraordinarily similar to many aspects of ISLAM. I wish everyone who feels inclined to accept 'freedom of religion' excuses, or who feels sorry for sect mothers in Texas crying for their children, would read this book, and Carolyn Jessop's "Escape" and Susan Ray Schmidt's "His Favorite Wife". Fundamentalist Mormonism takes freedom of religion WAY beyond individual rights, and mothers have a duty to protect their children from all kinds of abuse, and these three books just rip the lid off what really goes on (one of the books also makes clear that among other things, there is rampant, officially-sanctioned cruelty to animals going on for which there should be NO excuse). No great literary style but a great source of information. A Can't-Put-Downer book.
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Summary: A good look at polygamist lives
Comment: This was a great book! Irene details her live from her childhood to the end of her marriage with her polygamist husband. The book is not filled with strong words against polygamy per-se. Instead, Irene shows us, through her life, why polygamy is problematic. I wish it was longer!
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Editorial Reviews:
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Irene Spencer did as she felt God
commanded in marrying her
brother-in-law Verlan LeBaron, becoming
his second wife. When the
government raided the fundamentalist, polygamous
Mormon village of Short Creek, Arizona,
Irene and her family fled to
Verlan's brothers' Mexican ranch.
They lived in squalor and desolate
conditions in the Mexican desert
with Verlan's six brothers, one sister,
and numerous wives and children.
Readers will be appalled and
astonished, but most amazingly,
greatly inspired. Irene's dramatic
story reveals how far religion can
be stretched and abused and how one woman and her
children found their way out, into truth and redemption.
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