content: This biography is not much more than a well-written hagiography which does its best to present Joseph Smith in an imperfect but good-looking light trying to protect his reputation. It ignores significant events that would be of interest to readers. He leaves the Kinderhook Plates out of his chronology, his misdemeanor conviction of 'glass-looking,' his affair with Fanny Alger, his marriage to Lucinda Harris, etc.