Item Detail
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English
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Joseph Smith : Lost and Found
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Dialogue : A Journal of Mormon Thought
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2008
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41
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Dialogue Foundation
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147-57
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I met Joseph out of all Mormon context. I met him between Emerson, and the Beatles, between the American Revolution and the sixties, between the conservative New England tilt of my education and the ecstatic, and the Beatles, between the American Revolution and the sixties, between the conservative New England tilt of my education and the ecstatic, destabilizing, boundary-busting, prolonged years of anti-authoritarian protest against the U.S. government. I met Joseph roaming the corridors of American history in Fawn Brodie’s No Man Knows My History, portrayed as a genius who would be comfortable at the same table with P. T. Barnum, Walt Disney, and Norman Mailer—to name a few of the wildly imaginative national characters I had been pitching for documentaries.