Fawn M. Brodie
Fawn McKay Brodie was an American biographer and one of the first female professors of history at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She is best known for Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History (1974), a work of psychobiography, and No Man Knows My History (1945), an early biography of Joseph Smith, the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement.
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- Ogden
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- University of ChicagoUniversity of UtahWeber State University
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Trending topics shown first"Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with suspense."
"A man's memory is bound to be a distortion of his past in accordance with his present interests, and the most faithful autobiography is likely to mirror less what a man was than what he has become."
"A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both."
"There is, of course, a gold mine or a buried treasure on every mortgaged homestead. Whether the farmer ever digs for it or not, it is there, haunting his daydreams when the burden of debt is most unbe…"
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1915
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