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Explains Joseph Smith's life and the founding of the Mormon Church.
"Our missionaries are going forth to different nations, and in Germany, Palestine, New Holland, the East Indies, and other places, the standard of truth has been erected: no unhallowed hand can stop the work from progressing, persecutions may rage, mobs may combine, armies may assemble, calumny may defame, but the truth of God will go forth boldly, nobly, and independent till it has penetrated every continent, visited every clime, swept every country, and sounded in every ear, till the purposes of God shall be accomplished and the great Jehovah shall say the work is done." (Joseph Smith)
A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known.
Among all the various figures in 19th-century America who left controversial legacies, it is hard to find one as influential as Joseph Smith (1805-1844), the founder of the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Mormonism, and the Latter Day Saint movement. Revered as a prophet on the level of Moses by some, reviled as a perpetrator of large-scale fraud by others, what everyone can agree on is that Joseph Smith founded a religious movement that played a crucial role in the settlement of the West, especially in Utah.
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What would have made American Legends: The Life of Joseph Smith better?
If the author of the book wasn't an anti-Mormon.
Has American Legends: The Life of Joseph Smith turned you off from other books in this genre?
Not at all just from this author.
Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Michael Gilboe?
He was a good narrator.
What character would you cut from American Legends: The Life of Joseph Smith?
All of it because it is slanderous.
Any additional comments?
Definition of slanderous: Webster, Merriam Dictionary. "To make a false spoken statement that causes people to have a bad opinion of someone."
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