It's a nice, thick book, to be sure -- the kind that has you leaving the bookstore thinking you have gotten your money's worth. And maybe you will get that, if you use Behind the Mask of Mormonism critically. Written by the oft-paired team of John Ankerberg (Christendom's version of Phil Donahue, without the tendency to rudely interrupt his show's guests in mid-sentence) and John Weldon, Mask contains plenty of original quotes from Mormon sources that speak for themselves and covers more topics that just about any I have reviewed in this area thus far -- and that's the only reason this book gets one thumb up. Therein, though, lies the first flaw: There is little in the way of depth of research beyond primary LDS material. And then there is the second flaw, one that would make a smaller book unusable: The veneer of sensationalism. Perhaps LDS ceremonies are derived from occult practices, perhaps not; I haven't done the research yet to decide. But if they are, Ankerberg and Weldon could have come up with much more rational ways to say so. Two evangelical scholars who not long ago decried the inadequacies of counter-Mormon apologetics rightly castigated these authors for producing too much of a diatribe and not enough of substance in their work; I would not recommend this book at all were it not for the wealth of original source material it references. I recommend this book, but I do so as I voted for George W. Bush: While holding my nose.