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Joseph Smith:

Rough Stone Rolling (Google eBook)
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Random House Digital, Inc., Dec 18, 2007 - Biography & Autobiography - 784 pages
Founder of the largest indigenous Christian church in American history, Joseph Smith published the 584-page Book of Mormon when he was twenty-three and went on to organize a church, found cities, and attract thousands of followers before his violent death at age thirty-eight. Richard Bushman, an esteemed cultural historian and a practicing Mormon, moves beyond the popular stereotype of Smith as a colorful fraud to explore his personality, his relationships with others, and how he received revelations. An arresting narrative of the birth of the Mormon Church, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling also brilliantly evaluates the prophet’s bold contributions to Christian theology and his cultural place in the modern world.


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Thorough and well researched. - Goodreads
Very well-researched, but a little long and tedious. - Goodreads
Bushman is a good writer. - Goodreads
I loved the human and divine portrayal. - Goodreads
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His insights and perspective were incredible. - Goodreads

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User Review  - William C. Montgomery - Goodreads

I've got to say that it was fascinating and difficult to read. Bushman approached the project is presented quite objectively. Other works about Joseph Smith are either intended to persuade the reader ... Read full review

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User Review  - David J. Larkin, Jr. - Goodreads

A lot of information, not always digested, but sometimes presented without moralizing, just dropped on the page. I found it fatiguing, though, and much prefer Fawn Brodie's "No Man Knows My History." Read full review

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Epilogue
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Sources Cited
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About the author (2007)

Richard L. Bushman was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1931. He took his B.A., M.A., and PhD. degrees at Harvard University. He has taught at Brigham Young University, Boston University, University of Delaware, and Columbia University, where he is currently Gouverneur Morris Professor of History, Emeritus. His previous books are From Puritan to Yankee: Character and Social Order in Connecticut, 1690-1765 (1967), Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism (1984), King and People in Provincial Massachusetts (1985), and The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, and Cities (1992).


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