On June 27, 1844, a mob stormed the jail in the dusty frontier town of Carthage, Illinois. Clamorous and angry, they were hunting down a man they saw as a grave threat to their otherwise quiet lives: the founding prophet of Mormonism, Joseph Smith. They wanted blood. In American Crucifixion, Alex Beam tells how Smith went from charismatic leader to public enemy. This interesting story is a hardcover book has 334 pages with a dust jacket.