Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling

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 contributionsto Christian theology and his cultural place in the modern world.

• No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith
• An Insider's View of Mormon Origins
• Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale Smith
• Truth Seeking: The Story of High-Ranking Mormon Leader Hans Mattsson Seeking Sincere Answers From His Church but Instead Finding Contempt, Fear, Doubt ...and Eventually Peace
• Early Mormonism and the Magic World View
• Contemporary Mormonism: Latter-Day Saints in Modern America
• By the Hand of Mormon: The American Scripture that Launched a New World Religion
• In Sacred Loneliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith
• Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet
• History of Joseph Smith by His Mother Lucy Mack Smith