Название: Joseph Smith for President: The Prophet, the Assassins, and the Fight for American Religious Freedom
Автор: Spencer W. McBride
Издательство: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190909412
Год: 2021
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 296
Размер: 11,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

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 men.