No man knows my history : the life of Joseph Smith, the Mormon prophet
In 1823 a young man named Joseph Smith had an encounter 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
Print Book, English, 1995
2nd ed., rev. and enl., 1st Vintage Books ed
Vintage Books, New York, 1995