Volume 2 B: a cultural history of the book of mormon: Follies Epic and Novel (the cultural history of the book of mormon)

by Daymon M. Smith

But Nauvoo was once a real thing, and not merely imagined or standing for a more real Nauvoo. Any actual Bible, similarly, is riddled with contradiction, discordant voices, and hardly an appropriate guide for anyone not looking to end up in an “institution.”