"The bicentennial of Joseph Smith's birth has been a time for Mormons to take stock," said Richard Bushman, a Mormon and professor emeritus of history at Columbia University, whose biography of Smith will be published next month. "They want to take the measure of the man themselves, but they are also interested in how he is regarded by the world at large."
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