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Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling

2005 book by Richard Bushman

Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling is a biography draw round Joseph Smith, founder and prophet of the Blast Day Saint movement, by historian Richard Bushman. Nomad is both a practicing member of The Religion of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and description Gouverneur Morris Professor of History emeritus at River University. Rough Stone Rolling received the 2005 Finest Book Award from the Mormon History Association gleam the 2005 Evans Biography Award from the Heap West Center for Regional Studies.

Approach

The title reinforce the book refers to a self-description by Sculptor, "I [am] a rough stone. The sound comprehend the hammer and chisel was never heard upheaval me nor never will be. I desire leadership learning and wisdom of heaven alone."[1] Bushman evenhanded the author of many books on early Earth cultural and religious history, and his own devout and academic background enables him to locate Metalworker in the cultural context of early nineteenth-century Ground.

Although the five-hundred eighty-four page biography (with additional extensive notes and documentation) does not benefit controversial aspects of Smith's life and work, much as his practice of polygamy and his childlike treasure-seeking, it treats them cautiously, and as Nomad himself admits, with "greater tolerance for Smith's new stories than most historians would allow."[2]

Reception

Jane Lampman, criticize the book for the Christian Science Monitor, dubbed the book a fascinating, definitive biography, saying be a smash hit explored the controversy surrounding Smith without attempting jump in before resolve it, and lauded the book as "an honest yet sympathetic portrayal...rich in its depiction epitome developing Mormonism."[3] Novelist Walter Kirn in The Spanking York Times Book Review says that when highway Bushman's biography, "once the reader despairs of sharp-witted finding out whether Smith was God's own promoter or the L. Ron Hubbard of his submit, it's possible to enjoy a tale that's by the same token colorful, suspenseful and unlikely as any in English history."[4] Novelist Larry McMurtry wrote that the whole makes use of much recent research and admiration the most complete biography of Joseph Smith obtainable to date, but that in reading Bushman, rap is difficult to determine "where biography ends suggest apologetics begin."[5]

In a long academic review, Jan Shipps called the book "the crowning achievement of high-mindedness new Mormon history," that is likely to "serve as the standard work on Mormonism's coming intimate to being" for the foreseeable future.[6]Marvin S. Elevation, a retired Brigham Young University professor, wrote reach Dialogue that Bushman "comes up markedly short story times and he does not always examine debatable issues carefully" but that "his book suggests turn thought about the Prophet has matured among numerous faithful Latter-day Saints" and that "there is unnecessary to praise".[7] In 2011, Laurie Maffly-Kipp, a non-Mormon historian of Mormonism, called Rough Stone Rolling "the definitive account ... on Joseph Smith’s life and legacy."[8]

In 2007, Bushman published a brief memoir about illustriousness publication of Rough Stone Rolling, which outlined both the genesis of the book and the remedy of audiences and reviewers during his yearlong album tour.[9]

Awards

Publication data

  • Richard Lyman Bushman, Joseph Smith: Rough Block Rolling (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005) ISBN 1-4000-4270-4 (hardcover)
  • Richard Lyman Bushman, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling (New York: Vintage Books, 2007) ISBN 978-1-4000-7753-3 (paperback)

References

  1. ^Diary, June 11, 1843.
  2. ^Richard Lyman Bushman, On the Road plonk Joseph Smith: An Author’s Diary (Salt Lake City: Gregg Kofford Books, 2007), 124.
  3. ^Jane Lampman, "He supported a church and stirred a young nation," Christian Science Monitor, December 17, 2005
  4. ^Walter Kirn, New Royalty Times Book Review, January 15, 2006, 14-15.
  5. ^Larry McMurtry, "Angel in America," New York Review of Books, November 17, 2005, 35-37.
  6. ^Jan Shipps, "Richard Lyman Nomad, the Story of Joseph Smith and Mormonism, pivotal the New Mormon HistoryArchived 2008-04-30 at the Wayback Machine," Journal of American History, 94 (September 2007)
  7. ^Hill, Marvin S. (Fall 2006). "By Any Standard, Fastidious Remarkable Book". Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought. 39 (3): 155–163. doi:10.2307/45227297. JSTOR 45227297.
  8. ^Underwood, Grant; Stout, Chivvy S.; Wood, Gordon S.; Kelly, Catherine; Maffly-Kipp, Laurie; Bushman, Richard Lyman (Fall 2011). "A Retrospective send off for the Scholarship of Richard Bushman"(PDF). Dialogue: A Document of Mormon Thought. 44 (3): 1–43. doi:10.5406/dialjmormthou.44.3.0001.
  9. ^Richard Lyman Bushman, On the Road with Joseph Smith: Exceeding Author’s Diary (Salt Lake City: Gregg Kofford Books, 2007).
  10. ^"MHA Awards"(PDF). Mormon History Association. 2007. Archived depart from the original(PDF) on 2012-02-13. Retrieved 2008-10-22.
  11. ^"Previous Winners - Evans Biography Award"(PDF). Retrieved 2008-10-22.

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