Joseph Smith for President: The Prophet, the Assassins, and the Fight for American Religious Freedom

ISBN-13: 9780190909413 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 296 str.

Spencer W. McBride

Recenzje

Joseph Smith for President takes readers inside one of the most unlikely presidential campaigns in American history. Spencer McBride shows us Joseph Smith parading on the shoulders of his followers, issuing an anti-slavery platform, and asking to be put at the head of a 100,000-man army. This is an eloquent and richly detailed portrait of the political conflict between the early Latter-day Saints and their political opponents.

O autorze

Spencer W. McBride is an Associate Managing Historian of the Joseph Smith Papers Project and the author of Pulpit and Nation: Clergymen and the Politics of Revolutionary America. He has written about the evolving role of religion in American politics for the Washington Post and the Deseret News. He is also the creator and host of The First Vision: A Joseph Smith Papers Podcast.