{"product_id":"on-the-road-with-joseph-smith-an-authors-diary-9781589581029","title":"On the Road with Joseph Smith: An Author's Diary","description":"\u003cp\u003eAfter living with Joseph Smith for seven years, biographer Richard Lyman Bushman went \"on the road\" for a year. After delivering the final proofs of his landmark study, \u003cem\u003eJoseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling\u003c\/em\u003e to Knopf in July 2005, Bushman crisscrossed the country from coast to coast, delivering numerous addresses on Joseph Smith at scholarly conferences, academic symposia, and firesides. This startlingly candid memoir concludes eleven months later with an article written for Common-Place in August 2006.\u003cbr\u003e Bushman confesses to hope and humility, an unexpected numbness when he expected moments of triumph, and genuine apprehension as he awaits reviews. He frets at the polarization that dismissed the book as either too hard on Joseph Smith or too easy. He yields to a very human compulsion to check sales figures on amazon.com, but partway through the process stepped back with the recognition, \"The book seems to be cutting its own path now, just as  I] hoped.\"\u003cbr\u003e For readers coming to grips with the ongoing puzzle of the Prophet and the troublesome dimensions of their own faith, Richard Bushman, a temple sealer and stake patriarch but also a prize-winning scholar, openly but not insistently presents himself as a believer. \"I believe enough to take Joseph Smith seriously,\" he says. He draws comfort both from what he calls his \"mantra\" (\"Today I will be a follower of Jesus Christ\") and also from ongoing engagement with the intellectual challenges of explaining Joseph Smith.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-2574517\"\u003eRichard Lyman Bushman\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Greg Kofford Books, Inc.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/09\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.46lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.37d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781589581029\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1589581024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-BIO\"\u003eBiography \u0026amp; Autobiography\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-BIO007000\"\u003eLiterary Figures\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-REL\"\u003eReligion\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-REL046000\"\u003eChristianity | Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Greg Kofford Books, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43832749195403,"sku":"9781589581029","price":19.93,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0626\/5100\/7115\/files\/img_61033765-6bc9-4cc4-841f-a8a6e9a6418d.jpg?v=1755621776","url":"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/products\/on-the-road-with-joseph-smith-an-authors-diary-9781589581029","provider":"CA Corrections Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}