Joseph Smith, Richard Lyman Bushman
Joseph Smith, Richard Lyman Bushman
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Joseph Smith
Rough Stone Rolling

Author: Richard Lyman Bushman

Narrator: James Anderson Foster

Unabridged: 28 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 01/24/2018

Synopsis

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.

About Richard Lyman Bushman

Richard Lyman Bushman, Gouverneur Morris Professor of History, Emeritus, at Columbia University, grew up in Portland, Oregon, and earned his undergraduate and graduate degrees from Harvard University. He has also taught at Brigham Young University, Boston University, and the University of Delaware. His From Puritan to Yankee: Character and Social Order in Connecticut, 1690-1765 won the Bancroft Prize in 1967. His other books include Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism, winner of the Evans Biography Award; King and People in Provincial Massachusetts; and The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities. A practicing Mormon, he lives in New York City with his wife, Claudia.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lucy on April 29, 2008

While reading this book, I think I recommended it to about every person I had a conversation with about it. Now that I'm actually finished reading it, I have mixed emotions. I'm not left with the feeling I wanted to have -- the triumphant "Praise To The Man" feeling. But I do feel grateful. Grateful......more

Goodreads review by Jamie on May 07, 2015

I read most of this book several years ago (before my goodreads days) but then just finished re-reading a lot of it in conjuction with reading Fawn Brodie's "No Man Knows my History" another biography of Joseph Smith. So . . . my review of this book will mostly be a compare / contrast of the 2 books......more

Goodreads review by Samcwright on January 20, 2020

This was one of the first books I read when I began my study of Christian theology and Mormonism. I started with Brodie’s “No Man Knows My History” and then read this. I remember seeing Joseph Smith as a complex person. I never believed he was perfect. But this book provided some additional details......more

Goodreads review by Dallin on July 26, 2008

The definitive biography on Joseph Smith (so I've heard--I haven't read any other). Bushman goes to great lengths to try and be objective as possible, and while he doesn't always succeed (I doubt that such success is impossible), you can tell you've gotten a fairly clear image of Smith--warts and al......more

Goodreads review by Bronson on April 24, 2008

I just finished this the other night and I'm still trying to figure out if I liked it or not. It is very detailed and academic - you can tell it was written by a professor. There is a ton of information in it but for a fiction reader like myself I had to work hard to get through it. As far as a biogr......more

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