Junius and Joseph presidential politics and the assassination of the first Mormon prophet
""Junius and Joseph examines Joseph Smith's nearly forgotten [1844] presidential bid, the events leading up to his assassination on June 27, 1844, and the tangled aftermath of the tragic incident. It... establishes that Joseph Smith's murder, rather than being the deadly outcome...
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Logan, Utah :
Utah State University Press
c2005.
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009430340406719 |
Table of Contents:
- New World Eden : the promise of America in late Jacksonian politics
- "Clear the way for Henry Clay"
- "To save the district for the Whigs"
- "Nauvoo is no place for rational people"
- The third party
- "Missourians seem determined not to let us alone"
- The candidate
- Thy kingdom come-- in Texas
- Two conventions
- What will be the end of things?
- Retributive justice
- Gentlemen of undoubted veracity
- Carthage
- Distance lent enchantment to the view
- The kingdom delayed
- "Bound by common guilt and danger to commit almost any act to save them from infamy"
- Wolf hunts
- The campaign continues
- "To avenge the blood that stains the walls of Carthage jail"
- How wide the conspiracy?
