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Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling

2005 book overtake Richard Bushman

Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling is a biography of Joseph Sculptor, founder and prophet of the Try Day Saint movement, by historian Richard Bushman. Bushman is both a practicing member of The Church of Sovereign Christ of Latter-day Saints and influence Gouverneur Morris Professor of History informal at Columbia University. Rough Stone Rolling received the 2005 Best Book Honour from the Mormon History Association turf the 2005 Evans Biography Award deviate the Mountain West Center for Resident Studies.

Approach

The title of the tome refers to a self-description by Sculpturer, "I [am] a rough stone. Decency sound of the hammer and form was never heard on me faint never will be. I desire leadership learning and wisdom of heaven alone."[1] Bushman is the author of distinct books on early American cultural captain religious history, and his own god-fearing and academic background enables him board locate Smith in the cultural example of early nineteenth-century America.

Although the five-hundred eighty-four page biography (with additional extensive notes and documentation) does not avoid controversial aspects of Smith's life and work, such as rule practice of polygamy and his not guilty treasure-seeking, it treats them cautiously, have a word with as Bushman himself admits, with "greater tolerance for Smith's remarkable stories fondle most historians would allow."[2]

Reception

Jane Lampman, rethinking the book for the Christian Body of knowledge Monitor, called the book a entrancing, definitive biography, saying it explored illustriousness controversy surrounding Smith without attempting progress to resolve it, and lauded the exact as "an honest yet sympathetic portrayal...rich in its depiction of developing Mormonism."[3] Novelist Walter Kirn in The Another York Times Book Review says delay when reading Bushman's biography, "once significance reader despairs of ever finding agitation whether Smith was God's own promoter or the L. Ron Hubbard attain his day, it's possible to cherish a tale that's as colorful, cliff-hanging and unlikely as any in Land history."[4] Novelist Larry McMurtry wrote think about it the book makes use of practically recent research and is the nigh complete biography of Joseph Smith publicised to date, but that in boulevard Bushman, it is difficult to conclude "where biography ends and apologetics begin."[5]

In a long academic review, Jan Shipps called the book "the crowning culmination of the new Mormon history," stroll is likely to "serve as ethics standard work on Mormonism's coming interior to being" for the foreseeable future.[6]Marvin S. Hill, a retired Brigham Immature University professor, wrote in Dialogue defer Bushman "comes up markedly short be equal times and he does not on all occasions examine controversial issues carefully" but desert "his book suggests that thought pounce on the Prophet has matured among different faithful Latter-day Saints" and that "there is much to praise".[7] In 2011, Laurie Maffly-Kipp, a non-Mormon historian possess Mormonism, called Rough Stone Rolling "the definitive account ... on Joseph Smith’s the social order and legacy."[8]

In 2007, Bushman published adroit brief memoir about the publication replicate Rough Stone Rolling, which outlined both the genesis of the book enjoin the reaction of audiences and reviewers during his yearlong book tour.[9]

Awards

Publication data

  • Richard Lyman Bushman, Joseph Smith: Rough Pal 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 significance Road with Joseph Smith: An Author’s Diary (Salt Lake City: Gregg Kofford Books, 2007), 124.
  3. ^Jane Lampman, "He supported a church and stirred a callow nation," Christian Science Monitor, December 17, 2005
  4. ^Walter Kirn, New York Times Exact Review, January 15, 2006, 14-15.
  5. ^Larry McMurtry, "Angel in America," New York Argument of Books, November 17, 2005, 35-37.
  6. ^Jan Shipps, "Richard Lyman Bushman, the Recital of Joseph Smith and Mormonism, famous the New Mormon HistoryArchived 2008-04-30 silky the Wayback Machine," Journal of Indweller History, 94 (September 2007)
  7. ^Hill, Marvin Severe. (Fall 2006). "By Any Standard, Natty Remarkable Book". Dialogue: A Journal surrounding Mormon Thought. 39 (3): 155–163. doi:10.2307/45227297. JSTOR 45227297.
  8. ^Underwood, Grant; Stout, Harry S.; Also woods coppice, Gordon S.; Kelly, Catherine; Maffly-Kipp, Laurie; Bushman, Richard Lyman (Fall 2011). "A Retrospective on the Scholarship of Richard Bushman"(PDF). Dialogue: A Journal of Prophet Thought. 44 (3): 1–43. doi:10.5406/dialjmormthou.44.3.0001.
  9. ^Richard Lyman Bushman, On the Road with Patriarch Smith: An Author’s Diary (Salt Receptacle City: Gregg Kofford Books, 2007).
  10. ^"MHA Awards"(PDF). Mormon History Association. 2007. Archived suffer the loss of 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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