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From the article: One early LDS apostle, Parley P. Pratt, took a different public-relations approach, Givens said. In tracts and debates, Pratt unabashedly proclaimed the distinct doctrines of the church such as man’s deification and God’s embodiment, Givens said. Pratt was trying to get the critics to engage the new faith’s theological claims. “I’ve always admired his pluck,” said Givens, whose biography of Pratt, co-written with Matthew Grow, will be published next year. “Pratt’s attitude seemed to be Christendom was a ship about to sink..."

Yeah, as this Mormon admires the "pluck" of this early Lds "apostle" (Parley P. Pratt), writing a biography about him...how much will Givens focus on...
...Pratt's dozen wives or so?
...and how one of those pick-up wives was a woman who was never divorced (separated) whom he met as a missionary in the South?
...the whole notoriousness of it was that it led to a jealous husband killing Parley P. Pratt [read about it in a book by Jon Krakauer, Under the Banner of Heaven, a very interesting read]

Oh...and who did Parley Pratt say men and angels are...??? Why he said, they are of the same "race" and same "species" as all the gods!

Hmmm...I can just imagine Lucifer loving it when an "apostle" on earth puts angels in the same camp as "gods" plural.

Anyway, here's Parley P. Pratt's quote:
"Gods, angels, and men are all of
one species,
one race,
one great family,
widely diffused among the planetary systems as colonies, kingdoms, nations, etc.
Source: The Key to the Science of Theology, 1978, p. 21

Hmmm...I wonder if that quote will make Givens' bio of Pratt? Perhaps Givens can then provide more detail about Mormon "theology" that essentially says the Mormon man-gods & man-angels bounce around the universe and thereby arrive on planet earth as essentially aliens.

If you read the Lds church-owned newspaper, the Deseret News, they've been featuring ads this past week on Lds general authorities such as Parley Pratt's brother, Orson Pratt, and B.H. Roberts. The same publishing house has a theological book by Lds "apostle" John Widtsoe originally published in 1915 called Rational Theology.

Widtsoe in that book made the same slandering claim pointed out by Greyfoxx39 in her post...a slander of God that reduced him to be of slime and then mortal origins:

"God and man are of the same race..." (Widtsoe, p. 61)