Quote of the day
The adoption by Jefferson and the Republicans of the political structure of their opponents is of an importance hardly inferior to that of the adoption of the Constitution by the states.
Richard Bushman

Born: June 20, 1931 (age 94)
Bio: Richard Lyman Bushman is an American historian and Gouverneur Morris Professor of History emeritus at Columbia University. He was the Howard W. Hunter Visiting Professor in Mormon Studies at Claremont Graduate University from 2008 to 2011.
Known for:
- Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling (2005)
- Joseph Smith and the beginnings of Mormonism (1984)
- The refinement of America (1992)
- Mormonism: A Very Short Introduction (2008)






