Derek R. Sainsbury, "Storming the Nation: The Unknown Contributions of Joseph Smith’s Political Missionaries" (BYU RSC, 2020)

New Books in American Studies · Jun 23, 2020 · 44m

Derek R. Sainsbury's, Storming the Nation: The Unknown Contributions of Joseph Smith’s Political Missionaries (BYU RSC, 2020), uncovers the significant but previously unknown contributions of the electioneers who advocated for Joseph Smith’s 1844 presidential campaign. The focus is the cadre of more than six hundred political missionaries—who they were before the campaign, their activities and experiences as electioneers, and who they became following the campaign’s untimely collapse. This book recounts their important and even crucial contributions they made in the succession crisis, the…