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

by Spencer W. McBride

By the election year of 1844, Joseph Smith, the controversial founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, had amassed a national following of some 25,000 believers. Nearly half of them lived in the city of Nauvoo, Illinois, where Smith was not only their religious leader but also the mayor and the commander-in-chief of a militia of some 2,500

Publisher

Oxford University Press, Incorporated

Publication date

2021

Format

Print edition

Pages

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ISBN

9780190909413