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4:40 Joseph Smith had a temper
8:57 Joseph Smith was melancholy
15:28 Joseph Smith was worried about the state of his soul
19:07 Joseph Smith was resilient
24:49 Mormonism is a radical religion

Richard Lyman Bushman is an American historian and academic who serves as the Gouverneur Morris Professor of History emeritus at Columbia University. Bushman taught at Brigham Young University, Harvard University, Boston University, and the University of Delaware before joining the history faculty at Columbia.