Ebook {Epub PDF} No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith by Fawn M. Brodie

 · Fawn M. Brodie (–), raised in Utah, was a biographer and history professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. She was the author of five biographies, four of which incorporate Freudian psychology, including No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith, Thaddeus Stevens: Scourge of the South, and her bestseller, Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History/5(5). No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith Summary. No Man Knows My Name: The Life of Joseph Smith by Fawn M. Brodie is a history of Joseph Smith, Prophet, Seer, Revelator and first President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from the point of view of an unbeliever, whose whole focus is to prove him to be a charlatan, a fake and a fraud. Product Code: XB Title: No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith: Author: Fawn M. Brodie: Publisher: Vintage Books: List Price: $ Our Price.

This highly praised biography, revised and enlarged with new material, takes its title from a half-defiant, half-wistful pronouncement Joseph Smith himself made toward the close of the short, tragic melodrama that was his life. But the reader is made to know him fully--the man, the world from which he came, his extraordinary impact. His biographer, herself steeped in Mormon lore since her Utah. Whenever the subject of Joseph Smith or the Mormons has come up since , Fawn Brodie's book has been considered authoritative. No Man Knows My History had some things going for it from the beginning. Ms. Brodie characterized Joseph Smith in such a way that his religious claims were seemingly denied for non-Mormon readers. No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith: The Mormon Prophet. Dimock, Peter (edt); Brodie, Fawn M. Published by Vintage, ISBN ISBN

No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith, The Mormon Prophet. Brodie, Fawn M. Published by Vintage Books, New York, ISBN ISBN Fawn Brodie changed all that in with her `No Man knows my History', which was a first serious attempt by a professional historian to understand the Mormon prophet within his context, and in a manner which did not depend on accepting his supernatural experiences in the terms in which they have been described by Smith and his followers. Fawn M. Brodie (–), raised in Utah, was a biographer and history professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. She was the author of five biographies, four of which incorporate Freudian psychology, including No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith, Thaddeus Stevens: Scourge of the South, and her bestseller, Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History.