Has Anyone Read Michael Quinn's Book on LDS Corporate Wealth and Power?

[Hamilton Porter]

How is it? Hear some really good things about it.

https://www.amazon.com/Mormon-Hierarchy-Wealth-Corporate-Power/dp/1560852356

[smac97]

On 6/4/2023 at 1:22 AM, Hamilton Porter said:

How is it? Hear some really good things about it.

https://www.amazon.com/Mormon-Hierarchy-Wealth-Corporate-Power/dp/1560852356

We discussed it at some length in this 2017 thread. 

See also this review by Larry Wimmer and published by The Interpreter Foundation: Through a Glass Darkly: Examining Church Finances

From the abstract:

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Abstract: The Mormon Hierarchy: Wealth & Corporate Power is Michael Quinn’s impressive response to a century of books and articles that have often distorted the finances of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This third volume in The Mormon Hierarchy series covers Church history from 1830 to 2010, and represents a staggering commitment. For 46 years Quinn has diligently gathered data on Church income, expenditures, taxation, and “living allowances” paid to Church leaders. The results are significant and engrossing, with but one possibly serious error. If you are interested in any aspect of the Church finances, the enormous effort required to bring us Wealth & Corporate Power may well be the final word. In Quinn’s own words, it tells an “American success story without parallel.”

Thanks,

-Smac

[Tacenda]

I was looking forward to it, back in my anger phase or slight anger phase during my faith crisis thinking it would shed negative light about the way the church spends it's money. But it's done the opposite, lol. But I don't worry much about things like I use to, maybe hanging around my LDS friends a lot is helping. 

Interesting that Quinn had no idea about the billions and billions the church had in '17, I wonder if his book would look differently.

Edited June 7, 2023 by Tacenda