Upon publication, this book drew criticism for one of its appendices, which contains a detailed but perhaps inflated list of its subject's possible plural wives.
This book claims that its subject was "too much a Puritan" to be a "careless libertine" and notes that there is no manuscript evidence for the text of a novel supposedly smuggled by Sidney Rigdon. This work's author later wrote psychobiographies of Thomas Jefferson and Richard Nixon. This book dismisses claims that a work published by its subject was authored by Solomon Spaulding, instead suggesting that the contents of that work, such as the belief that Native Americans were descended from (*) Israelites, reflected popular beliefs in 19th-century frontier America. Upon publication, this book drew criticism for one of its appendices, which contains a detailed but perhaps inflated list of its subject's possible plural wives. For 10 points, identify the first book written by Fawn M. Brodie, a biography of Joseph Smith.
This book claims that its subject was "too much a Puritan" to be a "careless libertine" and notes that there is no manuscript evidence for the text of a novel supposedly smuggled by Sidney Rigdon.
No Man Knows My History