Joseph Smith: The Rise and Fall of an American Prophet, by John G. Turner (Yale, $35) Born in 1805 to a hardscrabble Vermont family and raised amid the fervor of the Second Great Awakening, Joseph ...
Perhaps a true-to-life biography of Joseph Smith, the founder of the Mormon Church, can never be written. Smith’s claims to accessing the divine were too outlandish, his embrace of polygamy too ...
The Mormon Land newsletter is The Salt Lake Tribune’s weekly highlight reel of news in and about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Join us on Patreon and receive the full newsletter, ...