[BlueK]

I've just started reading and am enjoying it. It's excellent so far in setting the religious scene JS was born into, not just by describing the level of religious excitement, but by explaining how the revivalists thought differently than the mainline protestants and how that would have affected how JS thought about things like apostasy and restoration. It's also doing a great job showing how JS, Parley P. Pratt, Sidney Rigdon and other LDS of his time had a fairly significantly different way of looking at these topics than how modern LDS tend to think about them. It's extremely thoroughly researched both from LDS and non-LDS sources with a ridiculous number of footnotes.