Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling
- ISBN-10
- 1400042704
- ISBN-13
- 9781400042708
- Series
- Joseph Smith
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 740
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2005
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Authors
- Richard Lyman Bushman, Richard L. Bushman, Jed Woodworth
Description
Presents the life of the founder of the Church of Latter Day Saints, from his hardscrabble early life in rural New York, to the visions that inspired The Book of Mormon, and his untimely death at the hands of a mob in 1844.
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