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Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling Richard Lyman Bushman
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Rough Stone Rolling is a refresingly honest attempt to understand Joseph Smith and the world he came from. Bushman, Professor Emeritus of History, Columbia University, and author of Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling gave this introduction at a CES seminar at BYU in July 2008. In his biography of Joseph Smith, “Rough Stone Rolling,” author Richard Lyman Bushman relates a popular Mormon legend/history regarding the Mormon prophet and his embrace of polygamy. The three discussed the relevance of Orsi's work to Mormon historiography, his impressions of Bushman's Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling (New York: Alfred A. This is the basic question Richard Lyman Bushman attempts to answer in Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling, a “cultural biography” of the first president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. His mother, Lucy Mack Smith was 30 years old. His dad, Joseph Smith Sr, was 34. See his Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling, pp. Perhaps it is too soon to declare it a definitive work, maybe what Richard Bushman's 'Rough Stone Rolling' did for the biography of Joseph Smith, so 'Joseph Smith's Polygamy' will do for Mormon polygamy. Next on my reading list is Rough Stone Rolling, my husband recommended it. Joseph Smith is a prophet of God, I honor him and am very grateful for his devoted work. Sometimes the truth* ain't pretty, but it sure as heck is better than the alternative. I've been reading about his life in Richard Bushman's book, “Joseph Smith, Rough Stone Rolling“. Bushman gives a fairly lucid explanation of these passages–at least what Joseph might have had in mind when he used these terms. It was Lucy's fifth pregnancy, and fourth child.