Background
Bushman, Richard Lyman was born on June 20, 1931 in Salt Lake City. Son of Ted and Dorothy (Lyman) Bushman.
(This lively and authoritative volume makes clear that the...)
This lively and authoritative volume makes clear that the quest for taste and manners in America has been essential to the serious pursuit of a democratic culture. Spanning the material world from mansions and silverware to etiquette books, city planning, and sentimental novels, Richard L. Bushman shows how a set of values originating in aristocratic court culture gradually permeated almost every stratum of American society and served to prevent the hardening of class consciousness. A work of immense and richly nuanced learning, The Refinement of America newly illuminates every facet of both our artifacts and our values.
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(Focuses on the first twenty-five years of Smith's life, d...)
Focuses on the first twenty-five years of Smith's life, describes his visions, and recounts how he established the Church of the Latter-day Saints.
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(Founder of the largest indigenous Christian church in Ame...)
Founder of the largest indigenous Christian church in American history, Joseph Smith published the 584-page Book of Mormon when he was twenty-three and went on to organize a church, found cities, and attract thousands of followers before his violent death at age thirty-eight. Richard Bushman, an esteemed cultural historian and a practicing Mormon, moves beyond the popular stereotype of Smith as a colorful fraud to explore his personality, his relationships with others, and how he received revelations. An arresting narrative of the birth of the Mormon Church, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling also brilliantly evaluates the prophet’s bold contributions to Christian theology and his cultural place in the modern world.
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(The American revolutionaries themselves believed the chan...)
The American revolutionaries themselves believed the change from monarchy to republic was the essence of the Revolution. King and People in Provincial Massachusetts explores what monarchy meant to Massachusetts under its second charter and why the momentous change to republican government came about. Richard L. Bushman argues that monarchy entailed more than having a king as head of state: it was an elaborate political culture with implications for social organization as well. Massachusetts, moreover, was entirely loyal to the king and thoroughly imbued with that culture. Why then did the colonies become republican in 1776? The change cannot be attributed to a single thinker such as John Locke or to a strain of political thought such as English country party rhetoric. Instead, it was the result of tensions ingrained in the colonial political system that surfaced with the invasion of parliamentary power into colonial affairs after 1763. The underlying weakness of monarchical government in Massachusetts was the absence of monarchical society -- the intricate web of patronage and dependence that existed in England. But the conflict came from the colonists' conception of rulers as an alien class of exploiters whose interest was the plundering of the colonies. In large part, colonial politics was the effort to restrain official avarice. The author explicates the meaning of "interest" in political discourse to show how that conception was central in the thinking of both the popular party and the British ministry. Management of the interest of royal officials was a problem that continually bedeviled both the colonists and the crown. Conflict was perennial because the colonists and the ministry pursued diverging objectives in regulating colonial officialdom. Ultimately the colonists came to see that safety against exploitation by self-interested rulers would be assured only by republican government.
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(Biography on Mormon Prophet Joseph Smith Jr. Considered b...)
Biography on Mormon Prophet Joseph Smith Jr. Considered by many to be the most important biography on him. There was a limited edition of 26 lettered copies; this is one of only 4 copies not lettered but numbered as hors commerce copies.
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Joseph Smith Rough Stone Rolling by Bushman, Richard Lyman. Published by Vintage,2007, Binding: Paperback Later printing
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( The years from 1690 to 1765 in America have usually bee...)
The years from 1690 to 1765 in America have usually been considered a waiting period before the Revolution. Mr. Bushman, in his penetrating study of colonial Connecticut, takes another view. He shows how, during these years, economic ambition and religious ferment profoundly altered the structure of Puritan society, enlarging the bounds of liberty and inspiring resistance to established authority. This is an investigation of the strains that accompanied the growth of liberty in an authoritarian society. Mr. Bushman traces the deterioration of Puritan social institutions and the consequences for human character. He does this by focusing on day-to-day life in Connecticut--on the farms, in the churches, and in the town meetings. Controversies within the towns over property, money, and church discipline shook the "land of steady habits," and the mounting frustration of common needs compelled those in authority, in contradiction to Puritan assumptions, to become more responsive to popular demands. In the Puritan setting these tensions were inevitably given a moral significance. Integrating social and economic interpretations, Mr. Bushman explains the Great Awakening of the 1740's as an outgrowth of the stresses placed on the Puritan character. Men, plagued with guilt for pursuing their economic ambitions and resisting their rulers, became highly susceptible to revival preaching. The Awakening gave men a new vision of the good society. The party of the converted, the "New Lights," which also absorbed people with economic discontents, put unprecedented demands on civil and ecclesiastical authorities. The resulting dissension moved Connecticut, almost unawares, toward republican attitudes and practices. Disturbed by the turmoil, many observers were, by 1765, groping toward a new theory of social order that would reconcile traditional values with their eighteenth-century experiences. Vividly written, full of illustrative detail, the manuscript of this book has been called by Oscar Handlin one of the most important works of American history in recent years.
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consultant writer history educator
Bushman, Richard Lyman was born on June 20, 1931 in Salt Lake City. Son of Ted and Dorothy (Lyman) Bushman.
AB, Harvard University, 1955. Master of Arts, Harvard University, 1960. Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1961.
From assistant professor to associate professor Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, 1960-1963, 1965-1968. Postdoctoral fellow Brown University, Providence, 1963-1965. Professor Boston University, 1968-1977, University Delaware, 1977-1989, Columbia University, New York City, since 1989, now Gouverneur Morris Prof of History emeritus.
Chairman history department University Delaware, 1977-1983. President Mormon History Association, 1985-1986.
(Founder of the largest indigenous Christian church in Ame...)
(This lively and authoritative volume makes clear that the...)
(Focuses on the first twenty-five years of Smith's life, d...)
(The American revolutionaries themselves believed the chan...)
(The American revolutionaries themselves believed the chan...)
( The years from 1690 to 1765 in America have usually bee...)
(Joseph Smith Rough Stone Rolling by Bushman, Richard Lyma...)
(Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling by Jed Woodworth. Alfre...)
(Biography on Mormon Prophet Joseph Smith Jr. Considered b...)
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Faith in God is more than a theoretical belief in Him. To have faith in God is to trust Him, to have confidence in Him, and to be willing to act on belief in Him. It is a principle of action and power.
Member American History Association, American Antiquarian Society, Organization of American Historians, Massachusetts History Society, Mormon History Association.
Married Claudia Lauper, August 19, 1955. Children: Clarissa, Richard Junior, Karl, Margaret, Serge, Benjamin.