John G. Turner’s new book is a nimble account that showcases the frenzied core of Smith’s soul.

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Historian Bushman (Joseph Smith) offers a meticulous study of the gold plates that Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism, reported discovering near his home in Palmyra, N.Y., in 1823. Bushman ...

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John Whitmer 6 May 1877 Book of Mormon manuscript letter testimony found on page 39 of Joseph R. Lambert "Scrap-book" journal. John Whitmer 6 May 1877 testimony alongside excerpted quotes taken ...

But there remained a bigger fish to pursue, namely Joseph Smith, the “white whale” of Mormon history, the religious icon who gave birth to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.