Describe symbolism in No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith by Fawn M. Brodie

Of the few unbiased statements made by Ms. Brodie, the most honest comes at the very end of the epilogue. "Joseph in his own person provided a symbol of nearness to God and a finality of interpretation that made the ordinary frontier evangelist seem by comparison all sound and fury. There was a great hunger in his people, and they accepted him for what he set himself up to be. They believed the best of him and thereby caused him to give his best. Joseph's true monument is not a granite shaft in Vermont but a great inter-mountain [now international] empire in the West "[and the world] (p. 404).