Richard Bushman

Professor Emeritus of History, Columbia University

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Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University and author of Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling, a biography about the founder of Mormonism; Visiting Professor in Mormon Studies at Claremont Graduate University (Fall, 2008)

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Massachusetts Senator John Kennedy became America's first Catholic president after a speech in which he said no Catholic prelate would tell him what to do in the White House.

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Massachusetts Senator John Kennedy became America's first Catholic president after a speech in which he said no Catholic prelate would tell him what to do in the White House.

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