As reported by the NYT. There is a blurb in the SLT as well.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/21/us...anted=all&_r=0
At some level it's kind of amazing that he had never encountered any of these things before he was an old man. But I've seen it before. The "suddenly curious" member, i.e. the person who didn't know a thing about church history other than the stories they learned in primary and Sunday school who then discovers JS was a polygamist etc. and it rocks their world.
We have discussed the idea for a long time on this of "innoculation". That is, better that these things be upfront and not hidden.
In the article you see a lot of the usual players. Joanna Brooks getting in her thing about women. Gregory Prince (McKay biography). Teryl Givens (book and lectures on doubt and merits of Mormonism). And of course John Dehlin, the disaffected self-appointed "savior/pied piper" of the doubter.
One thought here is that perhaps we suffer from not having a robust history of actually doing history. Look at BYU, and the relative lack of historians. I don't think you can argue any longer that the sanitized sunday school approach is a workable strategy.