Ask yourself, Why does this seem contrary to what a prophet would do?. "I personally think it is never good to let problems like this swim vaguely around in your head," he encourages one disturbed reader. He draws comfort both from what he calls his "mantra" ("Today I will be a follower of Jesus Christ") and also from ongoing engagement with the intellectual challenges of explaining Joseph Smith. "I believe enough to take Joseph Smith seriously," he says.
filled with praise, but it seemed to understand what I was up to." For readers coming to grips with the ongoing puzzle of the Prophet and the troublesome dimensions of their own faith, Richard Bushman, a temple sealer and stake patriarch but also a prize-winning scholar, openly but not insistently presents himself as a believer. He yields to a very human compulsion to check sales figures on, but partway through the process steps back with the recognition, "The book seems to be cutting its own path now, just as hoped." His favorite review was "not. He frets at the polarization that dismissed the book as either too hard on Joseph Smith or too easy. Bushman confesses to hope and humility, an unexpected numbness when he expected moments of triumph, and genuine apprehension as he awaited reviews. This candid memoir concludes eleven months later with an article written for Common-Place in August 2006. After delivering the final proofs of his landmark study, Joseph Rough Stone Rolling to Knopf in July 2005, Bushman crisscrossed the country from coast to coast, delivering numerous addresses on Joseph Smith at scholarly conferences, academic symposia, and firesides. After living with Joseph Smith for seven years, biographer Richard Lyman Bushman went "on the road" for a year.
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