American Crucifixion: The Murder of Joseph Smith and the Fate of the Mormon Church by Alex Beam

American Crucifixion: The Murder of Joseph Smith and the Fate of the Mormon Church

Alex Beam

352 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction history religion challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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On June 27, 1844, a mob stormed the jail in the dusty frontier town of Carthage, Illinois. Clamorous and angry, they were hunting down a man they saw as a grave threat to their otherwise quiet lives: the founding prophet of Mormonism, Joseph Smith...

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