No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet | Fawn McKay Brodie
In 1823 a young man named Joseph Smith had an encountr with an angel who led him to a cache of golden plates purporting to be the history of the lost tribes of Israel. Out of these new gospels and out of Smith's own charismatic personality and sense of mission- arose an authentically American religion, the Mormon faith.
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