Fawn Mckay
Fawn McKay Brodie was born in Ogden Utah on September 15 1915. Fawn McKay, brought up in the Mormon Church's First Family, employed her creative talents and ability to research skills to compose the captivating psycho-historical biographical account of Joseph Smith. Published in 1945 under the title of No Man is a Master of My History, she used both. It's a name derived from a funeral address that Joseph Smith delivered. The speech stated: "You didn't know me and you hadn't known my heart. There is no one who knows my past. It's impossible for me to reveal it. Wrote the 29-year old Fawn: Since the moment when he spoke, there have been at least three hundred writers who have stepped up to the plate. A lot of them have denigrated him and some even deified him. While a couple have even tried their hand in the field of medical diagnosis. It's not because the records aren't complete, the issue is that they're wildly contradictory. The task of assembling the documents, of separating firsthand accounts from second-hand plagiarism and fitting Mormon as well as non-Mormon stories into an assemblage that is credible history. It is both exciting and informative. This is the kind of task to which Fawn Brodie dedicated herself professionally. Her research as well as her writing earned her worldwide fame. Thaddeus Stevens. The Devil drives (1959). Thomas Jefferson. An Intimate History (1974) and later posthumously Richard Nixon.





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