Review: Spencer McBride. Joseph Smith for President: The Prophet, the Assassins, and the Fight for American Religious Freedom. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021.

Authors

Sara Georgini

Keywords

Joseph Smith, presidency, religious freedom

Abstract

Why would anyone want to be president of the United States? Joseph Smith knew. Spencer McBride’s biography of a unique political moment unfolds in Joseph Smith for President: The Prophet, the Assassins, and the Fight for American Religious Freedom. Harvesting an impressive cache of primary source material and dynamic new analysis, McBride uses Smith’s unlikely presidential run to investigate the political and religious systems of the day.

BYU ScholarsArchive Citation

Georgini, Sara (2023) "Review: Spencer McBride. Joseph Smith for President: The Prophet, the Assassins, and the Fight for American Religious Freedom. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021.," Mormon Studies Review: Vol. 10: No. 1, Article 20.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/msr2/vol10/iss1/20