Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling.(Book review)

Church History | December 1, 2006| | Copyright

Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling. By Richard Lyman Bushman. New York: Knopf, 2005. xxiv + 742 pp. $35.00 cloth.

There have been many attempts over the years to unseat the popularity of Fawn Brodie's No Man Knows My History (1945; New York: Vintage, 1995), but none has been written by a sophisticated historian of the nineteenth century. There is no question that Rough Stone Rolling is the definitive biography of Joseph Smith. Richard Bushman does not spend much ink exploring how he, as a believing member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, deals with ...

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