Joseph Smith
- ISBN-10
- 067003083X
- ISBN-13
- 9780670030835
- Series
- Joseph Smith
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 212
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2002
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Author
- Robert Vincent Remini
Description
Chronicles the life of the founder of the Mormon Church from his birth in 1805, through the visions he started receiving at age fourteen, to his assassination in 1844.
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