The gripping narration of a life fore-ordained for greatness coupled with breathtaking photographs make Joseph Smith, Praise to the Man and extraordinary book. Enjoy a visual look into the Prophet's humble beginnings. Bask in the serenity of the sacred in New York, learn of revelations in Ohio, and witness the heartache of Missori. See the grandeur of restored Nauvoo and sense the pathos of Carthage.
A later edition based on the 1902 edition was published as History of Joseph Smith by His Mother , Lucy Mack Smith , with notes and comments by Preston Nibley ( Salt Lake City : Bookcraft , 1958 ) . For a discussion of the history of ...
Richard M. Johnson of Kentucky, who had served as Vice President in Van Buren's administration, was also preparing for a campaign. Johnson had proven a liability for the Democrats, in large part because of his interracial relationships, ...
Rarely does a biographer capture the sense of being in a different time and mindset to the extent that readers feel they are reliving events through the eyes of the...
A troubled childhood. A difficult adolescence. How might these have affected the adult character of church founder Joseph Smith? Psychiatrist Robert D. Anderson explores the impact on young Joseph of...
The Words of Joseph Smith: The Contemporary Accounts of the Nauvoo Discourses of the Prophet Joseph
“would not subscribe to any particular system of faith”: Lucy Mack Smith, History of Joseph Smith, By His Mother, Lucy Mack Smith, ed. Preston Nibley (Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1956), p. 46. “This field is the world”: Ibid., p. 47.
Of three major biographies of Joseph Smith -- including those by Fawn Brodie and John Henry Evans -- Hill's is the most comprehensive and most temperate. Skillfully navigating between secular...
Sermons and writings of Joseph Smith, the Prophet.
Within this panoply of esoteric practices, Smith family members appear to have gravitated toward favorite methods: Lucy was known to practice chiromancy, or palm reading (a form of soothsaying);30 Joseph Sr. made use of a dowsing rod, ...
In his personal diaries Joseph Smith, the Mormon prophet, emerges as a believable and human religious leader, willing to allow both descendants and followers a complete look at his innovative...