Origin, Rise, and Progress of Mormonism: Biography of Its Founders and History of Its Church. Personal Remembrances and Historical Collections Hitherto Unwritten. by Pomeroy Tucker
This is a copy of the original book. In this series, we are bringing old books back into print using our own state-of-the-art techniques. Generally, these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way that the author intended. However, as we are working with old material, so occasionally there may be certain imperfections within the text. We are so pleased to ensure these classics are available again for generations to come.
Pomeroy is one of my distant relatives. Wasn't the "greatest book ever," but a good summary from the standpoint of someone close to the the history of the LDS church, but not constrained by the blinders of belief in Joseph Smith and the church.