History of the Prophet Joseph by His Mother
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Legacy LDS Audiobook Foundation is proud to present History of the Prophet Joseph by His Mother, with new additional faith-building content written specifically for the modern listener.
Biography of Joseph Smith as written by his mother, Lucy Mack Smith. Shortly following the death of Joseph Smith in 1844, and into 1845, Lucy Mack Smith dictated her recollections and family story to Nauvoo schoolteacher Martha Jane Coray. Coray worked with her husband to compile these books of notes and other sources into a manuscript, which was then copied. Although surrounded by a great deal of controversy when first published by Orson Pratt in 1853, it was later published by the Church under the direction of Joseph F. Smith. It has been called "one of the essential sources for Mormon origins" by Richard L. Anderson, and in the words of Leonard Arrington, it "perhaps tells more about Mormon origins than any other single source."
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On June 27, 1844, a mob stormed the jail in the dusty frontier town of Carthage, Illinois. Clamorous and angry, they were hunting down a man they saw as a grave threat to their otherwise quiet lives: The founding prophet of Mormonism, Joseph Smith. They wanted blood. At thirty-nine years old, Smith had already lived an outsized life. In addition to starting the Church of Latter-Day Saints and creating his own "Golden Bible" - the Book of Mormon - he had worked as a water-dowser and treasure hunter.
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- Narrated by: Audio Élan
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Harriet Jacobs’ autobiography, written under the pseudonym Linda Brent, details her experiences as a slave in North Carolina, her escape to freedom in the north, and her ensuing struggles to free her children. The narrative was partly serialized in the New York Tribune, but was discontinued because Jacobs’ depictions of the sexual abuse of female slaves were considered too shocking. It was published in book form in 1861.
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Another impossible narration
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Master Italian sculptor, goldsmith, and writer Benvenuto Cellini is best remembered for his magnificent autobiography. In this work, which was actually begun in 1558 but not published until 1730, Cellini beautifully chronicles his flamboyant times. He tells of his adventures in Italy and France, and his relations with popes, kings, and fellow artists.
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The problem is with Cellini himself.
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A former slave who became a successful dressmaker with her own business, became the dresser, dressmaker and confidante to Mary Todd Lincoln during Abraham Lincoln's presidential adminstration. Behind the Scenes tells the story of the rise of Elizabeth Keckley from abused slave to independent business woman to friend of the First Lady of the land during the Civil War.
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No Southern Accent
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Hard to imagine
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Why do otherwise intelligent individuals form seething masses of idiocy when they engage in collective action? We may think that the Great Crash of 1929, junk bonds of the '80s, and over-valued high-tech stocks of the '90s are peculiarly 20th century aberrations, but Mackay's classic - first published in 1841 - shows that the madness and confusion of crowds knows no limits, and has no temporal bounds.
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People don't change
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A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson is the harrowing first-person account of one mother's struggle to survive after she and her children are attacked in their home and captured by Native Americans during the winter of 1675.
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- DianeO
- 07-12-22
Mispronunciations
Mispronunciation of the following names was distracting: Moroni, Nephi, Nephites, Nauvoo.
Also, the voice used for the adult Joseph was the same as the little boy Joseph…rather annoying.
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- Anonymous User
- 03-10-23
Wonderful!!
Very easy listening considering I was being educated as I listened. Highly recommended for everyone
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- Linda Shaw
- 02-24-21
good read
loved the perspective of the prophets mother. it's one of the few books from this time era written in The voice of a woman who experienced it.
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- Sharon Merrill
- 08-24-24
Amazing story. Worst performance
Performance is riddled with misprononciations including key terms such as Nauvoo, Nephites, Moroni. She also mispronounced/misread multisyllabic words like conspicuous, tyranny, conspiracy. Narrative style is choppy with poor phrasing making it difficult to follow at times.
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- Anonymous User
- 01-19-23
Enjoyed and learned a lot
I enjoyed hearing this from the Mother of Joseph. It is a reminder of the hard trials the saints endured.
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- Anonymous User
- 06-28-20
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The narrator mispronounced several words and names. I also did not the like the way she dramatized parts.
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- Dandrew
- 03-15-21
loved it
I believe this is a true accountif the Smith family. Joseph Smith Jr. is a true prophet of Jesus Christ.
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- Amazon Customer
- 12-27-21
All good, except...
the testimony Lucy provides is welcomed, beautiful, and heart wrenching at times. the only reason for not giving this account a 4 star rating was due to the reader who, IMO, was so over dramatic it was a constant distraction. I feel a calmer more sober reading would convey the message of Lucy's testimony better. There were also a number of words mispronounced
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- Ben M
- 03-25-19
Great history, rough narration
I love Church History and learned a great deal with this audiobook, but the narration/performance was difficult for me. The narrator’s accent, tone of voice and mispronunciation of many proper names & places was distracting.
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- Nancy Brown
- 11-04-23
pronunciations!
The pronunciations were bad, flat voice, Hard to tell which characters were talking. But history was interesting.
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