Derek R. Sainsbury

Derek R. Sainsbury is an an associate professor of Church History and Doctrine at Brigham Young University and author of Storming the Nation: The Unknown Contributions of Joseph Smith’s Political Missionaries and several academic articles on the political intersections of Latter-day Saint and American histories. He is currently writing a dual biography of Joseph Smith and Robert F. Kennedy as the only two assassinated presidential candidates in American history.

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A Prophet, a Candidate, and a Just Cause

by Derek R. Sainsbury | undefined 57 | 07-14-2023

Review of Spencer W. McBride, Joseph Smith for President: The Prophet, the Assassins, and the Fight for American Religious Freedom (New York: Oxford University Press, 2021). 269 pages, $29.95 (hardcover). Abstract: Spencer McBride’s book is the deepest look yet into Joseph Smith’s 1844 campaign for president of the United States. In smooth-paced and readable detail, McBride’s […]

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