| Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling Contributor(s): Bushman, Richard Lyman (Author) |
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ISBN: 1400077532 ISBN-13: 9781400077533 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $21.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2007 Annotation: In this well-researched biography, an esteemed American cultural historian and a practicing Mormon tells how Joseph Smith formed a new religion from the ground up. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Religious - Religion | Christianity - Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-day Saints (mormon) - History | United States - 19th Century |
| Dewey: B |
| Physical Information: 1.5" H x 6.1" W x 9" (2.44 lbs) 784 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1800-1850 - Religious Orientation - Christian - Religious Orientation - Mormonism/Lds |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |