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English
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Joseph Smith : the First Mormon
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Garden City, N.Y.
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Doubleday
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550
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Originally published in 1977, this was the first major biography of Mormonism’s founder since 1945 and the most fully authenticated story of Joseph Smith’s life ever written.
Based on original sources, including many letters and diaries to which no previous biographer had had access, the book reveals the nineteenth-century religious ferment and fervor that helped to shape Smith’s beliefs. As a teenager, he had his first vision of God. At twenty-four, he published the Book of Mormon and founded his church, but was forever persecuted as he and his followers were forced across the country—from New York to Ohio, Missouri, and Illinois—where, when he was thirty-eight, a mob killed him.
This is the incredible story of a charismatic leader, one of the most complex and influential figures in American history—prophet, seer, city planner, banker, real estate agent, businessman, lieutenant general of militia, politician, instrument of divine revelation—a man who believed in God but not in the contending, confusing sects of his day and who, because of his beliefs, died a martyr. [Publisher]
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A Behaviorist Looks at Joseph
"A City on a Hill" : Chartering the City of Nauvoo
A Documentary History of the Book of Mormon
A Joseph Smith for the Twenty-First Century
Alexander William Doniphan and the 1838 Mormon War in Missouri
Amasa Mason Lyman, Mormon Apostle and Apostate : A Study in Dedication
American Apocrypha : Essays on the Book of Mormon
American Prophet, New England Town : The Memory of Joseph Smith in Vermont
Anabaptism and Mormonism : A Study in Comparative History
An Examination of the Mormon Doctrine of Creation and a Defense of Creation ex nihilo
An Introduction to the Relevance of and a Methodology for a Study of the Proper Names of the Book of Mormon
Anti-Mormonism in Illinois : Thomas C. Sharp's Unfinished History of the Mormon War, 1845
A Personal Odyssey Revisited : My Continuing Encounter with Mormon History
Beyond Literalism
Biographers and the Mormon "Prophet Puzzle" : 1974 to 2004
Brigham Young : American Moses
Building the Kingdom : A History of Mormons in America
By Study and Also by Faith : Essays in Honor of Hugh W. Nibley on the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday, 27 March 1990
By the Hand of Mormon : The American Scripture that Launched a New World Religion
Changing Portraits of the Elect Lady : Emma Smith in Non-Mormon, RLDS, and LDS Historiography, 1933-2005
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) (Mormonism)
Critiquing the Critics of Joseph Smith
Dartmouth Arminianism and it's Impact on Hyrum Smith and the Smith Family
Defender : The life of Daniel H. Wells
Differing Visions : Dissenters in Mormon History
DNA Mormon: Perspectives on the Legacy of Historian D. Michael Quinn
Doing the Works of Abraham : Mormon Polygamy―Its Origin, Practice, and Demise
Echoes and Evidences of the Book of Mormon
Editing the Prophet : Dean C. Jessee's The Personal Writings of Joseph Smith
Edward Partridge in Painesville, Ohio
Egalitarian Transformation : Gender, Religious Culture and Family Government on the Western Reserve of Ohio, 1800-1830
Eighth Witness : The Biography of John Whitmer
Encounters with Cumorah : A Selective, Personal Bibliography
Envisioning Scripture: Joseph Smith’s Revelations in Their Early American Contexts
Equal Rites : The Book of Mormon, Masonry, Gender, and American Culture
Exiles in a Land of Liberty : Mormons in America, 1830-1846
Expressions of Faith : Testimonies of Latter-day Saint Scholars
Faith and intellect : The lives and contributions of Latter-day Saint thinkers
Fanny Alger and Joseph Smith's Pre-Nauvoo Reputation
Fanny Alger Smith Custer : Mormonism's First Plural Wife?
Feeding the Flock : The Foundations of Mormon Thought : Church and Praxis
From Mission to Madness : Last Son of the Mormon Prophet
From Peoplehood to Church Membership : Mormonism's Trajectory since World War II
From Sacred Grove to Sacral Power Structure
From the Age of Science to an Age of Uncertainty : History and Mormon Studies in the Twentieth Century
Glorious in Persecution : Joseph Smith, American Prophet, 1839–1844
Herbal Remedies : God's Medicine?
'High Treason and Murder' : The Examination of Mormon Prisoners at Richmond, Missouri, in November 1838
History May Be Searched in Vain : A Military History of the Mormon Battalion
Hoary-Headed Saints : The Aged in Nineteenth-Century Mormon Culture
In Sacred Loneliness: The Documents
Isaiah in the Book of Mormon
Is Joseph Smith Relevant to the Community of Christ?
Joseph Smith and the 1834 D.P. Hurlbut Case
Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism
Joseph Smith and the Hazards of Charismatic Leadership
Joseph Smith and the Lamanites
Joseph Smith and the Origins of the Book of Mormon
Joseph Smith and the University of Nauvoo
Joseph Smith III : Pragmatic Prophet
Joseph Smith's Interpretation of Isaiah in the Book of Mormon
Joseph Smith's Polygamy
Joseph Smith, the Mormons, and Antebellum Reform : A Closer Look
Judge Me, Dear Reader : Emma’s Story
Junius and Joseph : Presidential Politics and the Assassination of the First Mormon Prophet
Kingdom on the Mississippi Revisited
Knowing Brother Joseph Again : Perceptions and Perspectives
Knowing Brother Joseph Again : The Book of Abraham and Joseph Smith as Translator
Latter-day Saint Prayer Circles
LDS Church Authority and New Plural Marriages, 1890-1904
Leonard J. Arrington : A Historian's Life
Life in Nauvoo, June 1844 : Vilate Kimball's Martyrdom Letters
Lost Legacy : The Mormon Office of Presiding Patriarch
"Marshaled and Disciplined for War" : A Documentary Chronology of Conflict in Hancock County, Illinois 1839-1845
Messages from Music and the Spoken Word
Methods and Motives : Joseph Smith III's Opposition to Polygamy, 1860-90
Mobocracy and the Rule of Law : American Press Reaction to the Murder of Joseph Smith
More Wives than One : Transformation of the Mormon Marriage System, 1840-1910
Mormon Enigma : Emma Hale Smith
Mormon History
Mormonism : From Its New York Beginnings
Mormonism : The Story of a New Religious Tradition
Mormons and Mormonism : An Introduction to an American World Religion
Mormons and the Bible : The Place of the Latter-day Saints in American Religion
Mormons in America
Mortal Enemies : Mormons and Missourians 1839-1844
National Culture, Personality, and Theocracy in the Early Mormon Culture of Violence
Nauvoo Roots of Mormon Polygamy, 1841-46 : A Preliminary Demographic Report
Not for Tourists
Old Mormon Nauvoo and Southeastern Iowa
Politicking against Polygamy : Joseph Smith III, The Reorganized Church, and the Politics of the Antipolygamy Crusade, 1860-1890
Positivism or Subjectivism? Some Reflections on a Mormon Historical Dilemma
Preservation of Life as Manifested in the Lives of Latter-day Prophets
Producing Ancient Scripture: Joseph Smith's Translation Projects in the Development of Mormon Christianity
Prophets and Prophecy in the Mormon Tradition(s)
Radical Origins : Early Mormon Converts and Their Colonial Ancestors
Reassessing Joseph Smith Jr.'s Formal Education
Rediscovering the Context of Joseph Smith's Treasure Seeking
Re-Examining the Adams/Quincy May 1844 Visit to Nauvoo
Reformed Christians and Mormon Christians : Let's Talk
Religion and Sexuality : The Shakers, the Mormons, and the Oneida Community
Religious Outsiders and the Making of Americans
Remembering the Deaths of Joseph and Hyrum Smith
Rewriting Eden With The Book of Mormon : Joseph Smith and the Reception of Genesis 1-6 in Early America
Saints, Slaves, and Blacks : The Changing Place of Black People within Mormonism
Same-Sex Dynamics among Nineteenth-century Americans : A Mormon Example
Science, Religion, and Mormon Cosmology
Search for Asylum : The Mormons Petition the Kentucky Governor, 1845
Seniority in the Twelve : The 1875 Realignment of Orson Pratt
Sheriff Jacob B. Backenstos : 'Defender of the Saints'
'Similarity of Priesthood in Masonry' : The Relationship between Freemasonry and Mormonism
Sisters in Spirit : Mormon Women in Historical and Cultural Perspective
Sojourner in the Promised Land : Forty years among the Mormons
Solemn Covenant : The Mormon Polygamous Passage
Still 'Side by Side'--The Final Burial of Joseph and Hyrum Smith
'Strains Which Will Not Soon Be Allowed to Die . . .' : 'The Stranger' and Carthage Jail
Succession by Seniority : The Development of Procedural Precedents, in the LDS Church
Telling Latter-Day Saint Lives : The Craft and Continuing Challenge of Mormon Biography
The Book of Mormon in a Biblical Culture
The Campaign and the Kingdom : The Activities of the Electioneers in Joseph Smith's Presidential Campaign
The Culture of Violence in Joseph Smith’s Mormonism
The Doctrine and Covenants: Revelations in Context: The 37th Annual Brigham Young University Sidney B. Sperry Symposium
The Emergence of Brigham Young and the Twelve to Mormon Leadership, 1830-1841
The Haun's Mill Massacre and the Extermination Order of Missouri Governor Lilburn W. Boggs
The Impact of the Mormon Migration on the Community of Kirtland, Ohio, 1830-1839
The Journey of a People : The Era of Restoration, 1820 to 1844
The Latter-Day Saint Experience in America
The Latter Day Saints in Ohio : Writing the History of Mormonism's Middle Period
The Mormon Church and Blacks : A Documentary History
The Mormon Experience : A History of the Latter-day Saints
The Mormon History Association's Tanner Lectures : The First Twenty Years
The Murders in Carthage : Non-Mormon Reports of the Assassination of the Smith Brothers
The Need for a New Mormon Heaven
The 'New Mormon History' Reassessed in Light of Recent Books on Joseph Smith and Mormon Origins
The Oxford Handbook of Mormonism
The Pearl of Greatest Price : Mormonism's Most Controversial Scripture
The Power of Evidence in the Nurturing of Faith
The Psychology of Prophetic Charisma : New Approaches to Understanding Joseph Smith and the Development of Charismatic Leadership
The Psychology of Religious Genius : Joseph Smith and the Origin of New Religious Movements
The Psychology of Religious Genius : Joseph Smith and the Origins of New Religious Movements
The Spalding Theory Then and Now
The Stone and the Star : Fanaticism, Doubt, and the Problem of Integrity
The Texas Republic and the Mormon Kingdom of God
The Writings of Oliver Olney : April 1842 to February 1843 — Nauvoo, Illinois
'This is a New Day' : A Look Back in Anticipation of the Future in Writing Mormon History
To Insinuate All Ideas and Inevitably Mislead Historical Judgment : Epistemological Metaphor in Mormon Biography
To Mend A Fractured Reality : Joseph Smith's Project
To Overcome the 'Last Enemy' : Early Mormon Perceptions of Death
Utah's History
Vernacular Mormonism : The Development of Latter-Day Saint Apocalyptic (1830-1930)
Visions in a Seer Stone : Joseph Smith and the Making of the Book of Mormon
Vox Joseph Vox Dei : Regarding Some of the Moral and Ethical Aspects of Joseph Smtih's Practice of Plural Marriage
Wrestling the Angel : The Foundations of Mormon Thought : Cosmos, God, Humanity