Joseph Smith for President The Prophet, the Assassins, and the Fight for American Religious Freedom

Spencer W. McBride is a historian and documentary editor at the Joseph Smith Papers Project and the author of Pulpit and Nation: Clergymen and the Politics of Revolutionary America. He has written about the evolving role of religion in American politics for the Washington Post and the Deseret News. He is the creator and host of The First Vision: A Joseph Smith Papers Podcast.

Introduction
Religious Intolerance in the "Land of the Free"

Chapter One
A Lesson in Political Negotiations

Chapter Two
Shattered American Idealism

Chapter Three
A City-State on a Hill

Chapter Four
The Specter of Missouri

Chapter Five
Mobocracy

Chapter Six
Presidential Hopefuls

Chapter Seven
A Political Tract

Chapter Eight
The Political Kingdom of God

Chapter Nine
Electioneering Missionaries

Chapter Ten
Vice Presidents and Protest Candidates

Chapter Eleven
Convention Season

Chapter Twelve
American Royalty

Chapter Thirteen
More Conventions

Chapter Fourteen
Assassination

Chapter Fifteen
Aftermath

Conclusion
Systemic Religious Inequality

Notes

Index