"Joseph Smith - The Architect of Mormonism - A Topical Biography" by Ganesh Cherian
In short, Cherian’s work presents Joseph Smith as a brilliant, charismatic, and deeply human architect whose early visionary product—the Book of Mormon—set ideals that the subsequent institutional religion both built upon and substantially altered under the pressures of reality. This portrayal is offered as a lens on the “messy, miraculous alchemy of faith” and on how religions commonly evolve from founding texts and charismatic founders.
