American Crucifixion : The Murder Of Joseph Smith and the Fate of the Mormon Church
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: ebook
Number of pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9781610393140
Description: From the Introduction...

The leading citizens of southwestern Illinois could have imprisoned Joseph Smith. They could have chased him back across the Mississippi and delivered him to his old enemies in Missouri. Instead, they killed him.

Why?

That is the story of this book.
Table of contents: label: Cast of Characters; label: Place Names; label: Introduction; label: 1
title: Flight; label: Part One
title: "In Illinois we've found a safe retreat..."; label: 2
title: King Joseph; label: 3
title: Zion, Illinois; label: 4
title: Everybody Hates the Mormons; label: 5
title: Polygamy and Its Discontents; label: Part Two
title: "Oh! Illinois! thy soil has drank the blood / Of Prophets martyr'd for the truth of God."; label: 6
title: "The Perversion of Sacred Things"; label: 7
title: "Crucify Him! Crucify Him!"; label: 8
title: Enter Pontius Pilate; label: 9
title: Surrender; label: 10
title: "The People Are Not That Cruel"; label: 11
title: Joseph's Homecoming; label: 12
title: Trial by Jury; label: Part Three
title: "Let us go to the far western shore / Where the blood-thirsty ‘christians' will hunt us no more."; label: 13
title: Aftermath; label: 14
title: This World and the Next; label: Acknowledgments; label: Chronology; label: Notes; label: Glossary; label: Bibliography; label: Index