Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling
- ISBN-10
- 1400077532
- ISBN-13
- 9781400077533
- Series
- Joseph Smith
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 740
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Author
- Richard Lyman Bushman
Description
A definitive biography of the founder of the Church of Latter Day Saints that marks the two hundredth year of his birth chronicles the life of Joseph Smith, from his hardscrabble early life in rural New York, to the visions that inspired The Book of Mormon and the establishment of the Mormon Church, to his untimely death at the hands of a mob in 1844. Reprint. 60,000 first printing.
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