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2:11- Getting to know Derek Sainsbury and what led him to write his book Storming the Nation: The Unknown Contributions of Joseph Smith’s Political Missionaries
5:55- Why Joseph Smith ran for president and why we don’t know much about it
11:59- Counsel of 50
18:04- Zion society
22:56- The political climate in Nauvoo leading up to Joseph running for president
28:27- Presidential campaign and platform
32:53- Electioneers and the campaign trail
41:32- The only female electioneer
45:44- Funny moments
49:08- Electioneers as prominent figures
51:54- StormingtheNation.com ; following the campaign in real time on social media
53:14- Ending Questions

This volume uncovers the significant but previously unknown contributions of the electioneers who advocated for Joseph Smith’s 1844 presidential campaign. The focus is the cadre of more than six hundred political missionaries—who they were before the campaign, their activities and experiences as electioneers, and who they became following the campaign’s untimely collapse. This book recounts the important and even crucial contributions they made in the succession crisis, the exodus from the United States, and the building of Zion in the Great Basin. Importantly, this narrative describes how their campaigning with the Quorum of Twelve Apostles using theodemocratic themes, coupled with the shock of Joseph Smith’s assassination, steeled and subsequently spurred many others into effective religious, political, social, and economic leaders—leaders who shaped Latter-day Saint history.

https://deseretbook.com/p/rsc-storming-the-nation-unknown-contributions-of-joseph-smiths-political-missionaries?ref=Grid%20%7C%20Search-1&variant_id=183467-hardcover

https://deseretbook.com/p/rsc-storming-the-nation-unknown-contributions-of-joseph-smiths-political-missionaries?ref=Grid%20%7C%20Search-1&variant_id=183467-hardcover