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Falling in love with Joseph Smith : my search for the real prophet / Jane Barnes.

by Barnes, Jane, 1942-

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Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, 2012.

Smith, Joseph, 1805-1844.

Barnes, Jane, 1942-

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

Mormons -- United States -- Biography.

Conversion -- Mormon Church.

9781585429257 (hc.)

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-286) and index.

Joseph Smith: lost and found -- The return of the repressed -- The angel, the plates, and the power of Joseph's charms -- La vita nuova -- Joseph Smith couldn't have written the Book of Mormon -- Back to the future -- Past-life digression -- Joseph through the particle accelerator -- Contradiction is not a sign of falsity -- The pure products of America -- Faith and irony -- Except ye be converted, and become as little children -- Sanctified flesh -- A dead prophet, a corpse, and a woman who will die.

Recounts how the author became unexpectedly infatuated with Joseph Smith and the Mormon religion, describing her findings while studying Smith's engaging early writings, her temptation to convert and her discovery that an ancestor was a Mormon.

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