Storming the Nation: The Unknown Contributions of Joseph Smith's Political Missionaries

This volume uncovers the significant but previously unknown contributions of the electioneers who advocated for Joseph Smith’s 1844 presidential campaign. The focus is the cadre of more than six hundred political missionaries—who they were before the campaign, their activities and experiences as electioneers, and who they became following the campaign’s untimely collapse. This book recounts the important and even crucial contributions they made in the succession crisis, the exodus from the ...