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Joseph Smith for President - The Prophet, the Assassins, and the Fight for American Religious Freedom (Hardcover)
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Joseph Smith for President - The Prophet, the Assassins, and the Fight for American Religious Freedom (Hardcover)
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By the election year of 1844, Joseph Smith, the controversial
founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, had
amassed a national following of some 25,000 believers. Nearly half
of them lived in the city of Nauvoo, Illinois, where Smith was not
only their religious leader but also the mayor and the
commander-in-chief of a militia of some 2,500 men. In less than
twenty years, Smith had helped transform the American religious
landscape and grown his own political power substantially. Yet the
standing of the Mormon people in American society remained
unstable. Unable to garner federal protection, and having failed to
win the support of former president Martin Van Buren or any of the
other candidates in the race, Smith decided to take matters into
his own hands, launching his own bid for the presidency. While many
scoffed at the notion that Smith could come anywhere close to the
White House, others regarded his run-and his religion-as a threat
to the stability of the young nation. Hounded by mobs throughout
the campaign, Smith was ultimately killed by one-the first
presidential candidate to be assassinated. Though Joseph Smith's
run for president is now best remembered-when it is remembered at
all-for its gruesome end, the renegade campaign was revolutionary.
Smith called for the total abolition of slavery, the closure of the
country's penitentiaries, and the reestablishment of a national
bank to stabilize the economy. But Smith's most important proposal
was for an expansion of protections for religious minorities. At a
time when the Bill of Rights did not apply to individual states,
Smith sought to empower the federal government to protect
minorities when states failed to do so. Spencer W. McBride tells
the story of Joseph Smith's quixotic but consequential run for the
White House and shows how his calls for religious freedom helped to
shape the American political system we know today.
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