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Joseph Smith : Rough Stone Rolling
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Overview
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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- ISBN-13: 9781400077533
- ISBN-10: 1400077532
- Publisher: Vintage
- Publish Date: March 2007
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1.7 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.85 pounds
- Page Count: 784
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