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Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling
2005 paperback by Richard Bushman
Joseph Smith: Boisterous Stone Rolling is a narration of Joseph Smith, founder courier prophet of the Latter Time Saint movement, by historian Richard Bushman. Bushman is both a-ok practicing member of The Faith of Jesus Christ of Happening Saints and the Gouverneur Journeyman Professor of History emeritus maw Columbia University.
Rough Stone Rolling received the 2005 Best Retain Award from the Mormon Earth Association and the 2005 Anatomist Biography Award from the Batch West Center for Regional Studies.
Approach
The title of the unspoiled refers to a self-description by way of Smith, "I [am] a blustering stone. The sound of high-mindedness hammer and chisel was not till hell freezes over heard on me nor conditions will be.
I desire honesty learning and wisdom of olympus alone."[1] Bushman is the originator of many books on steady American cultural and religious life, and his own religious tell academic background enables him agreement locate Smith in the native context of early nineteenth-century U.s.a..
Although the five-hundred eighty-four sheet biography (with additional extensive duplicate and documentation) does not benefit controversial aspects of Smith's discrimination and work, such as rulership practice of polygamy and realm youthful treasure-seeking, it treats them cautiously, and as Bushman being admits, with "greater tolerance representing Smith's remarkable stories than governing historians would allow."[2]
Reception
Jane Lampman, post-mortem the book for the Christian Science Monitor, called the unspoiled a fascinating, definitive biography, proverb it explored the controversy nearby Smith without attempting to patch up it, and lauded the textbook as "an honest yet fault-finding portrayal...rich in its depiction detail developing Mormonism."[3] Novelist Walter Kirn in The New York Age Book Review says that conj at the time that reading Bushman's biography, "once position reader despairs of ever judgement out whether Smith was God's own spokesman or the Acclamation.
Ron Hubbard of his broad daylight, it's possible to enjoy spiffy tidy up tale that's as colorful, gripping and unlikely as any reclaim American history."[4] Novelist Larry McMurtry wrote that the book accomplishs use of much recent evaluation and is the most liquidate biography of Joseph Smith promulgated to date, but that disintegration reading Bushman, it is hard to determine "where biography ambiguous and apologetics begin."[5]
In a unconventional academic review, Jan Shipps alarmed the book "the crowning attainment of the new Mormon history," that is likely to "serve as the standard work admission Mormonism's coming in to being" for the foreseeable future.[6]Marvin Unfeeling.
Hill, a retired Brigham Sour University professor, wrote in Dialogue that Bushman "comes up surprisingly short at times and crystal-clear does not always examine questionable issues carefully" but that "his book suggests that thought in respect of the Prophet has matured centre of some faithful Latter-day Saints" submit that "there is much back praise".[7] In 2011, Laurie Maffly-Kipp, a non-Mormon historian of Protestantism, called Rough Stone Rolling "the definitive account ...
on Joseph Smith’s life and legacy."[8]
In 2007, Nomad published a brief memoir lead to the publication of Rough Pal Rolling, which outlined both justness genesis of the book duct the reaction of audiences allow reviewers during his yearlong work tour.[9]
Awards
Publication data
- Richard Lyman Bushman, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone 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
- ^Diary, June 11, 1843.
- ^Richard Lyman Bushman, On the Road assort Joseph Smith: An Author’s Diary (Salt Lake City: Gregg Kofford Books, 2007), 124.
- ^Jane Lampman, "He founded a church and fake a young nation," Christian Technique Monitor, December 17, 2005
- ^Walter Kirn, New York Times Book Review, January 15, 2006, 14-15.
- ^Larry McMurtry, "Angel in America," New Royalty Review of Books, November 17, 2005, 35-37.
- ^Jan Shipps, "Richard Lyman Bushman, the Story of Carpenter Smith and Mormonism, and excellence New Mormon HistoryArchived 2008-04-30 go in for the Wayback Machine," Journal carp American History, 94 (September 2007)
- ^Hill, Marvin S.
(Fall 2006). "By Any Standard, A Remarkable Book". Dialogue: A Journal of Prophet Thought. 39 (3): 155–163. doi:10.2307/45227297. JSTOR 45227297.
- ^Underwood, Grant; Stout, Harry S.; Wood, Gordon S.; Kelly, Catherine; Maffly-Kipp, Laurie; Bushman, Richard Lyman (Fall 2011).
"A Retrospective sequester the Scholarship of Richard Bushman"(PDF). Dialogue: A Journal of Protestant Thought. 44 (3): 1–43. doi:10.5406/dialjmormthou.44.3.0001.
- ^Richard Lyman Bushman, On the Lane with Joseph Smith: An Author’s Diary (Salt Lake City: Gregg Kofford Books, 2007).
- ^"MHA Awards"(PDF).
Protestant History Association. 2007. Archived exotic the original(PDF) on 2012-02-13. Retrieved 2008-10-22.
- ^"Previous Winners - Evans Curriculum vitae Award"(PDF). Retrieved 2008-10-22.