Fawn M. Brodie



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Fawn M. Brodie

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born
September 15, 1915 in The United States

died
January 10, 1981

genre
Reference, History, Nonfiction


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Fawn McKay Brodie (September 15, 1915 – January 10, 1981) was a biographer and professor of history at UCLA, best known for Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History, a work of psychobiography, and No Man Knows My History, the first prominent non-hagiographic biography of Joseph Smith, Jr., the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement.

Raised in Utah in a respected, if impoverished, Latter-day Saint (LDS) family, Fawn McKay drifted away from religion during her years of graduate work at the University of Chicago and married the ethnically Jewish national defense expert Bernard Brodie, with whom she had three children. Although Fawn Brodie eventually became one of the first tenured female professors of history at UCLA, she is best known for her f...more


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Average rating: 3.92 · 1,060 ratings · 179 reviews · 7 distinct works
No Man Knows My History: Th...
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 665 ratings — published 1945 — 4 editions
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Thomas Jefferson: An Intima...
3.72 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 271 ratings — published 1974 — 7 editions
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The Devil Drives: A Life of...
4.12 of 5 stars 4.12 avg rating — 104 ratings — published 1967 — 5 editions
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Richard Nixon, the Shaping ...
3.0 of 5 stars 3.00 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1981 — 3 editions
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Thaddeus Stevens: Scourge o...
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1959
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