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	Utah History Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Brodie's fifth and final biography, Richard Nixon: The Shaping of His Character (1981), was completed as she was dying of cancer.
		It presented its subject in an extremely negative light, asserting that the personality of the disgraced ex-President was shaped by three major factors: the idea and fear of death, his trait as a pathological liar, and a lack of capacity to love.
		Even though Brodie did not live to see her Nixon biography in print, controversy surrounding this work and, indeed, her various other biographies has continued to the present, illustrating that her willingness to challenge the accepted was not the least of her own character traits and virtues.
	www.media.utah.edu /UHE/b/BRODIE,FAWN.html (511 words)

	Fawn M. Brodie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Brodie was excommunicated from the LDS Church in May 1946 for apostasy, which included refusing to edit or alter controversial material in her book.
		Brodie maintained many of the values taught by the LDS church such as strong ties to family which may have kept her loyal to Bernard in spite of a difficult marriage.
		Brodie died of cancer January 10, 1981 and was cremated.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fawn_M._Brodie (1438 words)

	Fawn Brodie Vindicated
		Fawn Brodie has built a career on the fame she gained among scholars who were troubled by Joseph Smith and the Mormons and who wanted to see them put in their place.
		Brodie is not bothered by the fact that she can adduce only slim factual support for her tales of what she primly calls Jefferson's "intimate life." Reluctantly she confesses that there is "no real evidence" as to what happened in the Betsy Walker case.
		Brodie's manipulation and tangling of evidence, of her obsession with sex, of her ignorance of the larger background of the subject she is treating, and of her special "intuition" into the minds of people.
	www.truthandgrace.com /brodie.htm (3252 words)

	Marvin S. Hill reviews Fawn Brodie
		Brodie argued that Joseph Smith, despite his lack of formal education, was a man with rich imagination and high intelligence who responded to the intellectual currents of his time from which he drew elements which shaped Mormon thought.
		It may be that Brodie erred initially when she accepted the prevailing view of the 1930's that the American Revolution was a period of indifference or even hostility toward religion, reflected in the attack on the established churches and the resulting separation of church and state.
		Brodie's assumption of a deceitful prophet was supported by her discovery that early Mormons did not relate the first vision story consistently, and, as she maintained in 1945, the earliest version by the prophet was not written until 1838.
	www.lds-mormon.com /hill.shtml (6376 words)

	Fawn M. Brodie
		Fawn Brodie was born in Ogden, Utah and her uncle David O. McKay was to later become the 9th president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
		Brodie was so anti-Mormon in her own intellectual orientation that she succumbed to the temptation to bring nineteenth century literature of Mormon countersubversion uncritically and in large doses into her own work.
		Brodies did not have a perfect right to hold such a belief herself, but it is an attitude which is destined to distort any religious figure--to reduce him to the level of comedy or of pathetic self-delusion.
	www.lightplanet.com /response/brodie.htm (544 words)

	The Legend and Legacy of Fawn Brodie - FARMS Review
		The other aspects of Brodie's career are merely accessories to (and the occasion for) the story he strives to tell about her struggle to free herself from bondage to what she pictured as a dreadfully constraining, parochial Mormon environment.
		Brodie granted that "Durham is no fool." But she complained that he "is either shamefully ignorant of the whole field of American Indian anthropology and archaeology and ethnology, or else has blockaded himself behind a lot of emotional barriers."
		Brodie was also aware of Hugh Nibley's various criticisms of her work (and also of his subsequent defense of the historical authenticity of the Book of Mormon).
	farms.byu.edu /display.php?table=review&id=373 (17191 words)

	Fawn Brodie - No Man Knows My History
		Brodie preserved the calm of a Nestor we would still have to judge her explanation strictly on its own merits, and not assume that she must be telling the truth because she is not mad at anybody.
		Brodie cites as her source for the story Caswall's earliest version, that of 1842, while the tale she actually tells is the elaborately revamped version of 1851, to which she adds important touches of her own not to be found in any of Caswall's accounts.
		Brodie's principles of research are the exact reverse: though ever so vague as to where the Prophet is or what he is doing, she is never at a loss to tell us exactly what is going on in his mind.
	www.fawnbrodie.com (12769 words)

	She Sure Doesn't Know Her History: Fawn Brodie
		Brodie, having been born a church member and having lived among the Mormons for so many years, must have known that the following statement is typical of Brigham Young's remarks regarding the founder of Mormonism: "Joseph Smith lived and died a prophet, and sealed his testimony with his blood.
		Brodie's scholarship, he was denounced as flippant and his arguments were discounted; but there are some rather remarkable similarities between his objections to No Man Knows My History and the current scholarly criticisms of Thomas Jefferson, which complain as Dr. Nibley did of Ms.
		Brodie could read this letter of Asael's and with honesty (scholarly or otherwise) conclude that he was "basically irreligious?" I don't see how it is possible.
	www.adrr.com /living/broadie.htm (3334 words)

	F. M. Brodie "The Fasting Hermit and Very Saint of Ignorance": A Biographer and Her Legend - FARMS Review
		Brodie was elated and thrilled by Morgan's glowing review of her book, even though she probably suspected that there might be a policy against having those she had thanked in the acknowledgments actually review her book.
		Brodie was thus anxious to rebut Knudson by playing what she called "this kind of numbers game." She claimed that Knudson was not only wrong about the reception given her book in general, but also about how it was received by historians.
		Brodie was two-thirds of the way through her research when she hit on this thesis, and hence it was at this point that she had more or less settled on the details of the explanation she would advance in her book.
	farms.byu.edu /display.php?table=review&id=227 (17686 words)

	Commentary Magazine - Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History, by Fawn M. Brodie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		...Brodie's enthusiastic exertions, can much mileage be gained from the tale that in his youth Jefferson, during the absence of his friend John Walker, made an improper advance toward Mrs...
		...Brodie can offer proof by coincidence: is it not significant that Jefferson's daughter decided to become a nun during the same month that he ordered some clothing for his slave Sally...
		...Brodie is at her best when there is no evidence whatever to cloud her vision...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V58I1P98-1.htm (1345 words)

	The Lijjick of Fawn Brodie's Biography
		Brodie is queen of mastering this lijjik, and her favorite young son, our critic falls for it hook, line, and stinker.
		Brodie states that "those who knew at first hand" that the accusations of Joseph's enemies were true merely dismissed then as "juvenile folly." And then she illustrates this with a quotation from Brigham Young, as if this is an admission to Joseph's immoral character.
		Brodie, the Mormon Historian par-excellence, so long as she can control the sources, and bolster her own view of history by suppressing evidence that is against her, and distorting things to fit her theory.
	www2.ida.net /graphics/shirtail/lijjick.htm (1566 words)

	Fawn Brodie - No Man Knows My History - book review, critiques, related links
		Marvin Hill has written a good review of Brodie's book which acknowledges several of Brodie's main themes and factual evidences while at the same time poking holes in some others.
		It seems to me that the problem isn't whether Brodie is correct or not with regard to Jefferson.
		which, in part, critiques Brodie's preconceived skepticism of Joseph Smith while ironically ignoring the fact that the FARMS folks have presuppositions of their own which are only skeptical of claims that don't conform to their religion.
	www.lds-mormon.com /brodie.shtml (704 words)

	Amazon.com: Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History: Books: Fawn McKay Brodie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Brodie unfolds his relationships with such women as Betsey Walker, Maria Cosway and the slave Sally Hemings, along with delving into his enemies and friends in public circles.
		Brodie weighed in on Jefferson being the father of Sally Hemming's children when it was not popular to taint him with human emotions.
		Brodie takes the time to richly describe the other individuals in Jefferson's life, there by providing to the reader great scholarship that is immensely personal and interesting.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0393317528?v=glance (1473 words)

	Amazon.com: No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith (Vintage): Books: Fawn M. Brodie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Fawn Brodie grew up as a Mormon, and I'm sure it pained her to uncover the facts that she did in her extensive research.
		Fawn Brodie, Niece of the Prophet, David O. McKay, has done meticulous research and I have searched for but never found or read an official LDS Church response or debunking of it; I've searched the BYU F.A.R.M.S. site hoping for an academic, honest review of her evidence and hoping to find that Ms.
		Fawn Brodie did a good job of exposing him for what he was.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0679730540?v=glance (2257 words)

	Fawn Brodie / Joseph Smith
		Brodie's book on Joseph Smith but I have read her
		The critics of Brodie rpcman 17:44:08 4/08/98 (
		Fawn Brodie on Jefferson and Joseph Smith Noel 23:39:34 11/06/98 (
	www.exmormon.org /boards/honestboard/messages/29.html (150 words)

	Fawn McKay Brodie Papers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Fawn McKay Brodie Papers (1943-1983) documents the life (1915-1981) and writings of this well-known but controversial Utah-born author and university professor.
		Included are personal materials, including a biography, interviews, awards, an obituary, and memorial; a file regarding her husband, Bernard Brodie, and her mother, Fawn Brimhall McKay; and family correspondence.
		Other documents reflect Brodie's tenure as professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles, 1967-1977.
	www.lib.utah.edu /spc/mss/ms360/360.html (101 words)

	Dale Morgan on Early Mormonism, Correspondence and a New History
		He once wrote that his point of view as a historian was primarily "that of the taxonomist—to describe what has happened rather than to criticize the happening." In 1948 Dale was considering an invitation to speak to the Salt Lake City Lion's Club.
		Fawn Brodie sent him drafts of her work-in-progress, No Man Knows My History, which he returned with detailed comments and suggestions.
		Dale and Fawn Brodie shared research materials, a similar naturalistic outlook toward Mormon history, and a protective sympathy for each other's works throughout their careers.
	www.signaturebookslibrary.org /dalemorgan/daletitle.htm (8114 words)

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	Books at Random House of Canada - Author Spotlight: Fawn M. Brodie
		Books at Random House of Canada - Author Spotlight: Fawn M. Brodie
		The first paperback edition of the classic biography of the founder of the Mormon church, this book attempts to answer the questions that continue to surround Joseph Smith.
		Was he a genuine prophet, or a gifted fabulist who became enthralled by the products of his imagination and ended up being martyred...
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