Back in March, Diane Winston reviewed two new Mormon history books for The Washington Post. Diane, the Knight Chair for Media and Religion at the Annenberg School at USC, is a journalist of great renown as well as a Princeton-trained historian. (And, since this is a post about self-disclosure and the ways autobiography affects our writing, I should point out that she's a much-admired personal acquaintance of mine. In short, she is awesome.)
The books in question are Matthew Bowman's The Mormon People (Random House, 2012) and LDS in the USA by Lee Trepanier and Lynita K. Newswander (Baylor University Press, 2012). Diane expresses frustration at the fact that in neither book do the scholars reveal their LDS affiliations:
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