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They may then be willing to cast principled votes based on an educated understanding of the public interest in the face of polls suggesting that the public itself may have quite a different understanding of where its interest lies.
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)






