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- Rough Stone Rolling
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Founder of the largest indigenous Christian church in American history, Joseph Smith published the 584-page Book of Mormon when he was 23 and went on to organize a church, found cities, and attract thousands of followers before his violent death at age 38. Richard Bushman, an esteemed cultural historian and a practicing Mormon, moves beyond the popular stereotype of Smith as a colorful fraud to explore his personality, his relationships with others, and how he received revelations.
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Tapestry of different pieces makes for a whole
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By: Peter Manseau
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The Fearless Benjamin Lay
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- By: Marcus Rediker
- Narrated by: Cornell Womack
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The Fearless Benjamin Lay chronicles the transatlantic life and times of a singular and astonishing man - a Quaker dwarf who became one of the first ever to demand the total, unconditional emancipation of all enslaved Africans around the world. He performed public guerrilla theater to shame slave masters, insisting that human bondage violated the fundamental principles of Christianity.
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stunning story
- By Austin Choi-Fitz on 10-05-17
By: Marcus Rediker
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A House Full of Females
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A stunning and sure to be controversial book that pieces together, through more than two dozen 19th-century diaries, letters, albums, minute books, and quilts left by first-generation Latter-day Saints, or Mormons, the never before told story of the earliest days of the women of Mormon "plural marriage", whose right to vote in the state of Utah was given to them by a Mormon-dominated legislature as an outgrowth of polygamy in 1870, 50 years ahead of the vote nationally ratified by Congress.
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Well-behaved women seldom write in diaries
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- By: Alex Beam
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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 "Golden Bible" - the Book of Mormon - he had worked as a water-dowser and treasure hunter.
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All religious histories are not created equal
- By Kendra on 07-01-14
By: Alex Beam
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Lincoln's Battle with God
- A President's Struggle with Faith and What It Meant for America
- By: Stephen Mansfield
- Narrated by: Stephen Mansfield
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- Unabridged
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Abraham Lincoln is the most beloved of all US presidents. He freed the slaves, gave the world some of its most beautiful phrases, and redefined the meaning of America. He did all of this with wisdom, compassion, and wit. Yet, throughout his life, Lincoln fought with God. In his early years in Illinois, he rejected even the existence of God and became the village atheist. In time, this changed but still he wrestled with the truth of the Bible, preachers, doctrines, the will of God, the providence of God, and then, finally, God’s purposes in the Civil War.
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Outstanding
- By Thomas Streveler on 07-23-21
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The Wordy Shipmates
- By: Sarah Vowell
- Narrated by: Sarah Vowell
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Sarah Vowell's special brand of armchair history makes the bizarre and esoteric fascinatingly relevant and fun. She takes us from the modern-day reenactment of an Indian massacre to the Mohegan Sun casino, from old-timey Puritan poetry, where "righteousness" is rhymed with "wilderness," to a Mayflower-themed waterslide. Throughout, The Wordy Shipmates is rich in historical fact, humorous insight, and social commentary by one of America's most celebrated voices.
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I love Sarah Vowell
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By: Sarah Vowell
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Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul
- Church, State, and the Birth of Liberty
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- Narrated by: Richard Poe
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This is a story of power, set against Puritan America and the English Civil War. Williams's interactions with King James, Francis Bacon, Oliver Cromwell, and his mentor Edward Coke set his course, but his fundamental ideas came to fruition in America, as Williams, though a Puritan, collided with John Winthrop's vision of his "City upon a Hill."
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Forged in Faith
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The true drama of how faith motivated America's Founding Fathers, influenced the Declaration of Independence, and inspired the birth of the nation. Forged in Faith recounts how faith motivated Pilgrims, Puritans, Presbyterians, Baptists, Quakers, Catholics, and Anglicans alike in a unique and fascinating history of early America and the faith that forged a nation.
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Incredible must read.
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By: Rod Gragg
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Fatal Discord
- Erasmus, Luther, and the Fight for the Western Mind
- By: Michael Massing
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
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This deeply textured dual biography and fascinating intellectual history examines two of the greatest minds of European history - Desiderius Erasmus and Martin Luther - whose heated rivalry gave rise to two enduring, fundamental, and often colliding traditions of philosophical and religious thought.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent work - up until the discussion of America
- By Michele Esposito on 08-24-19
By: Michael Massing
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A God-Sized Vision
- Revival Stories That Stretch and Stir
- By: Collin Hansen, John Woodbridge
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- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Can God stir revival by his Holy Spirit, even in our culture today? Do we really believe he can? In a day of diminished expectations, A God-Sized Vision: Revival Accounts That Stretch and Stir recounts global examples of prior revivals, beginning with the Reformation and the Great Awakenings. It continues with the Welsh and Azusa Street revivals and those that occurred simultaneously in Asia, followed by the East Africa Revival of the 1930s.
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A stirring global review of God's revivals
- By Anonymous User on 08-25-17
By: Collin Hansen, and others
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- Narrated by: Taylor Anderson
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On April 7, 1844, Joseph Smith gave a sermon in Nauvoo, Illinois, to nearly 20,000 church members. A few weeks earlier, a church member and close friend of Joseph named King Follett was killed in an accident. This well-known event in Nauvoo led Joseph Smith to comment specifically on Follett’s death and to address what Joseph called “[T]he subject of the dead”.
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The truth is delicious! Craving more!
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American Gospel
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In American Gospel (literally meaning the "good news about America"), New York Times best-selling author Jon Meacham sets the record straight on the history of religion in American public life. As Meacham shows, faith, meaning a belief in a higher power, and the sense that we are God's chosen, has always been at the heart of our national experience, from Jamestown to the Constitutional Convention to the Civil Rights Movement to September 11th.
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what you weren't taught in school
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They Were Christians
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What do Abraham Lincoln, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Louis Pasteur, Frederick Douglass, Florence Nightingale, and John D. Rockefeller, Sr., all have in common? They all changed the world - and they were all Christians. Now the little-known stories of faith behind 12 influential people of history are available in one inspiring volume. They Were Christians reveals the faith-filled motivations behind some of the most outstanding political, scientific, and humanitarian contributions of history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great book
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The Truth About Muhammad
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,156
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In The Truth about Muhammad, New York Times best-selling author and Islam expert Robert Spencer offers an honest and telling portrait of the founder of Islam - perhaps the first such portrait in half a century - unbounded by fear and political correctness, unflinching, and willing to face the hard facts about Muhammad's life that continue to affect our world today.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Enlightening
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When the Church Was Young
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 982
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Marcellino D'Ambrosio dusts off what might have been just dry theology to bring you the exciting stories of great heroes such as Ambrose, Augustine, Basil, Athanasius, John Chrysostom, and Jerome. These brilliant, embattled, and sometimes eccentric men defined the biblical canon, hammered out the Creed, and gave us our understanding of sacraments and salvation. It is they who preserved the rich legacy of the early Church for us.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Masterful summary of the early Church Fathers
- By Mike C on 08-22-14
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Heaven’s Ditch
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- By: Jack Kelly
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The technological marvel of its age, the Erie Canal grew out of a sudden fit of inspiration. Proponents didn't just dream; they built a 360-mile waterway entirely by hand and largely through wilderness. As excitement crackled down its length, the canal became the scene of the most striking outburst of imagination in American history. Zealots invented new religions and new modes of living. The Erie Canal made New York the financial capital of America and brought the modern world crashing into the frontier.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An under told story of the United States.
- By JayHey on 08-28-16
By: Jack Kelly
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In 2012, Mormon General Authority Marlin K. Jensen acknowledged that members are leaving the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints "in droves". Access to the internet is often credited and blamed for this mass exodus, where members learn about problematic doctrines and cover-ups of LDS history. Many are happy as Mormons. And many are not. Those who leave, and those doubters who stay face struggles that few others can understand.
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Extremely helpful book to further heal after a faith deconstruction.
- By Anthony D. Miller on 11-20-18
By: Luna Lindsey
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The Kolob Theorem, a Mormon’s View of God’s Starry Universe
- By: Lynn M. Hilton
- Narrated by: Lynn M. Hilton
- Length: 2 hrs and 1 min
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The Kolob Theorem written by Professor Lynn M. Hilton allows us to see more clearly the celestial home we lived in before we were born and the home we will live in after we die. These places appear more real; they are made of matter, some of very fine and pure matter, and exist in time and space. Lynn, as a man of faith, unites in a single theory, scientific evidence and sources from the standard works of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints to account for the form and structure of all of God’s worlds, planets, and suns.
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Tried to keep an open mind
- By Anonymous User on 12-30-19
By: Lynn M. Hilton
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Brigham Young and the Expansion of the Mormon Faith
- The Oklahoma Western Biographies
- By: Thomas G. Alexander
- Narrated by: Charles Henderson Norman
- Length: 12 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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As president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and Utah’s first territorial governor, Brigham Young (1801-77) shaped a religion, a migration, and the American West. He led the Saints to Utah, guided the establishment of 350 settlements, and inspired the Mormons as they weathered unimaginable trials and hardships. In this new biography, historian Thomas G. Alexander draws on a lifetime of research to provide an evenhanded view of Young and his leadership.
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I am LDS and enjoyed the book
- By Oscar Abarca on 12-10-19
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The Mormon Mirage
- A Former Member Looks at the Mormon Church Today
- By: Latayne C. Scott
- Narrated by: Tamara Marston
- Length: 14 hrs and 52 mins
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Three decades after leaving the Mormon faith, Latayne Colvett Scott looks back to her original journey out of Mormonism and the reasons why she left. Revised and updated, this third edition of The Mormon Mirage presents both a fascinating inside look at Mormonism and new and formidable evidence against its claims and teachings.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Keep away from it. Hate-Literature.
- By Amazon Customer on 04-13-12
By: Latayne C. Scott
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A House Full of Females
- Plural Marriage and Women's Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870
- By: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
- Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
- Length: 19 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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A stunning and sure to be controversial book that pieces together, through more than two dozen 19th-century diaries, letters, albums, minute books, and quilts left by first-generation Latter-day Saints, or Mormons, the never before told story of the earliest days of the women of Mormon "plural marriage", whose right to vote in the state of Utah was given to them by a Mormon-dominated legislature as an outgrowth of polygamy in 1870, 50 years ahead of the vote nationally ratified by Congress.
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Well-behaved women seldom write in diaries
- By Darwin8u on 01-13-17
What listeners say about Joseph Smith
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- Rob Sorensen
- 02-28-22
Love the complete history
it's not easy to find this broad of a history of Joseph Smith on LDS.org. I find there are a lot of things left out. I really enjoyed the history and the story.
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- Kelly Scott
- 11-06-19
The World accepted Joseph as they did Savior.
The world in Joseph's day accepted him, as they did the Savior and all other Prophets in the Old and New Testament in there day, complete rejection.
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- Laurie Cisneros
- 11-20-19
First, I’m going to listen again!
Then I may even listen again. I love bushman’s no holds barred and unbiased treatment of so many difficult aspects of Joseph Smith’s complicated life. There is no irritating, prejudiced or sympathetic tone of someone who believes or does not believe in Joseph smith’s validity as a prophet of God. I recommend this book to anyone interested in a neutral telling ofJoseph Smith’s story.
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- Erik Pedroso
- 12-06-18
Like drinking from a fire hydrant
This book covers so much information. A very thorough account of the life and influence of Joseph Smith.
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- TBYU
- 03-12-20
Fantastic Overview of Joseph’s Life
Fantastic overview of Joseph’s life. Interesting facts and topics about his life and legacy, which is of great use for anyone that wants to know about his work.
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- Jared J.
- 08-04-19
fantastic read!
I really enjoyed this read. I will warn the reader however, this book contains some church history that may be hard to understand and accept. I suggest reading "Saints volume 1" as a book to prepare for this read.
I enjoyed Bushmans honesty and defense on the life of Joseph Smith.
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- Anonymous User
- 03-29-24
Very good, details one does not often hear
I liked learning of Joseph’s human side, not just that he as a great prophet. Also, I gain a deeper appreciation for all Emma had to rise up to.
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- Teri
- 04-05-24
His results.
i enjoyed Learning more about Joseph Smith and the restoration of the Presthood Keys on Earth.
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- Anonymous User
- 05-10-21
Most informative book about Joseph Smith
Richard Bushman's biography of Joseph Smith is one of the finest works of History I've ever read. He is well documented and does a great job telling the life story of a intersting, complex, and difficult figure in American History.
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- Ben Barton
- 12-09-21
Balanced history
Four stars instead of five because I have read (or listened to) better books, but this book was very well done. I believe he presents a well-researched and thoughtful history that is balanced and fair.
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