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9781101870228 | Pantheon Books, December 6, 2016, cover price $26.95
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 his own religion and creating his own Golden Bible”the Book of Mormonhe 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, Alex Beam tells how Smith went from charismatic leader to public enemy: How his most seismic revelationthe doctrine of polygamycreated a rift among his people; how that schism turned to violence; and how, ultimately, Smith could not escape the consequences of his ambition and pride.Mormonism is America's largest and most enduring native religion, and the martyrdom” of Joseph Smith is one of its transformational events. Smith's brutal assassination propelled the Mormons to colonize the American West and claim their place in the mainstream of American history. American Crucifixion is a gripping story of scandal and violence, with deep roots in our national identity.
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9781610393133 | Public Affairs, April 22, 2014, cover price $26.99 | About this edition: On June 27, 1844, a mob stormed the jail in the dusty frontier town of Carthage, Illinois.
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9781610395465 | Public Affairs, June 9, 2015, cover price $16.99
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9781494531478 | Unabridged edition (Tantor Media Inc, April 22, 2014), cover price $83.99
Product Description: Today the classics of the western canon, written by the proverbial ''dead white men,'' are cannon fodder in the culture wars. But in the 1950s and 1960s, they were a pop culture phenomenon. The Great Books of Western Civilization, fifty-four volumes chosen by intellectuals at the University of Chicago, began as an educational movement, and evolved into a successful marketing idea...read more
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9781586484873 | Public Affairs, November 3, 2008, cover price $24.95
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9781586487768 | 1 edition (Public Affairs, October 13, 2009), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Today the classics of the western canon, written by the proverbial ''dead white men,'' are cannon fodder in the culture wars.
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9781586481612 | Public Affairs, January 6, 2003, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: Presents a history of the Massachusetts mental institution from its beginnings in the early 19th century to today.
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9781891620751 | 1 edition (Public Affairs, December 1, 2001), cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Presents a history of the Massachusetts mental institution from its beginnings in the early 19th century to today.
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9780312058128 | St Martins Pr, June 1, 1991, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: After America emerges victorious in a bloodless World War III, a cuckolded CIA agent is charged with turning a bankrupt Soviet city into a thriving metropolis to show Americans there is some value in their newfound possession
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