The Skousen Book of Mormon World Records and Other Amazing Firsts, Facts, and Feats

by Paul B. Skousen

From the archives of Church history to the headlines of global media, here are the fastest, the oldest, the highest, the biggest, the coldest, the greatest, the most daring, prominent, faithful, adventurous, creative, and persistent Latter-day Saints ever. The premier edition of the Skousen Book of Mormon World Records and Other Amazing Firsts, Facts, and Feats is the hard-to-put-down chronicle of more than 1,600 authentic, up-to-date and astonishing achievements by Mormons everywhere. It inspires, encourages and challenges Saints of all ages to peruse and ponder, "Could I hold a new Mormon World Record?"

Genres: Lds

465 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2004

About the author

Paul B. Skousen is an author and instructor on the United States Constitution. He received his undergraduate from BYU in Journalism and his Master's degree in National Security Studies from Georgetown University.

After graduate school Paul worked for President Ronald Reagan in the White House Situation Room. In addition, Paul was an intelligence officer for the CIA. He received national notoriety when he preserved a large bag of shredded top secret documents, the so-called "smoking gun" from the Iran-Contra Affair, that he sold piecemeal as "shredded secrets from the White House." Paul Harvey and other media outlets covered the unusual story.

Paul has extensive experience interviewing political and military leaders in Egypt, Israel and Jordan, including the former prime minister of Jordan, the political advisor to Egypt's President Mubarak, and senior generals in the Israeli military.

Paul is the author of five books including The Naked Socialist and Treasures from the Journal of Discourses. He has revised and edited several of his father's books including Fantastic Victory, The Cleansing of America, The Five Thousand Year Leap Glenn Beck Edition, and The Majesty of God's Law. He is currently writing the Biography of W. Cleon Skousen, among other projects, and is a frequent speaker and motivational instructor.

Additionally, Paul was a ghost writer for Glenn Beck, a columnist for The Daily Caller, and currently teaches communications and journalism at Utah Valley University.

Reviews

[Austin Skousen]

I thought this book was pretty good. There are a bunch of cool and interesting facts in it. However, I don't like how there are a large amount of record holders in the book who mysteriously have the same last name as the author. For example, Joe and Ben Skousen hold the record for building the "Largest Wooden Swing". Rita Skousen holds the record for discovering the "Most Significant Hole". Even the author holds his own two records for discovering "Secret Trash!" and after turning to page 430 to find the other record (after looking up Paul Skousen in the index), I found two blank pages, randomly placed in the middle of the book. There are 13 different people in the book with the last name Skousen holding 16 records.

I'll get off of my soap box in a minute, but since this guy's my first cousin once removed, he's not only representing the LDS Church, he's representing my family name as well, so I think I have some room to talk. So, my point is, when you're representing a small church who's barely taking off the runway (founded in 1830, only 13 million members), you don't want to give it bad publicity. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure this book has sparked the interest of hundreds of non-members, but if they find all of these record holders who are related to the author in the book, that might rub them the wrong way, and they might think Paul Skousen's being a little cocky.