Alex Beam
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
334 pages ; cm
Description
"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. 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,...