Quote of the day
I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again … the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.
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)






