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31: Joseph Smith - The Statesman

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The world that Joseph Smith lived in was, politically speaking, rough-and-tumble, and it would have been impossible to do what he did without consequences in the larger political world. This episode looks at how Joseph Smith and Mormonism intersected with local and national politics and what religious liberty meant at the time.

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