β Scribed by Beam, Alex
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
On June 27, 1844, a mob stormed the jail in the dusty frontier town of Carthage, Illinois. Clamorous and angry, they were hunting down a man they saw as a grave threat to their otherwise quiet lives: the founding prophet of Mormonism, Joseph Smith. They wanted blood.
At thirty-nine years old, Smith had already lived an outsized life. In addition to starting the Church of Latter-day Saints and creating his own ΒGolden Bible" β the Book of Mormon β he had worked as a water-dowser and treasure hunter. He'd led his people to Ohio, then Missouri, then Illinois, where he founded a city larger than fledgling Chicago. He was running for President. And, secretly, he had married more than thirty women.
In American Crucifixion, Alex Beam tells how Smith went from charismatic leader to public enemy: how his most seismic revelation β the doctrine of polygamy β created a rift among his people; how that schism turned to violence; and how, ultimately,... Ο‘μ―¦λ
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
1981 Edition of the Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ
This new collection features three acclaimed one-act plays from Edward Albee's early years. With the initial productions of _The Death of Bessie Smith, The Sandbox,_ and _The American Dream,_ Albee consolidated his reputation as a brilliant new talent of the New York theater scene. These three plays