No Man Knows My History by Fawn M. Brodie

Despite the objections of both sets of parents, they were married on August 25, 1936. It was there, while working in the cafeteria, that she met Bernard Brodie, a young Jewish student of political science. It was at the University of Utah she began to feel 'a quiet kind of liberation' from 'the parochialism of the Mormon community.' She later described this feeling as 'like taking off a hot coat in the summertime.' By the time she entered the University of Chicago for graduate work in 1936, her break with the past was almost complete.

By the time she was eighteen, she had attended both Weber State College in Ogden and the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, and earned a B.A. It was from her mother's family that Fawn Brodie took her course in life.įawn Brodie began her education in the Weber County School District. Her mother, Fawn Brimhall McKay, was in her daughter's phrase a 'quiet heretic.' Fawn Brodie's maternal uncle, Dean Brimhall, was widely known as a free thinker and scholar. McKay, who later became president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. McKay, was a 'very devout Mormon,' an assistant to the Twelve Apostles, and president of the European Mission. Hers was, by her own account, an idyllic childhood. Brodie was born September 15, 1915, in Ogden, Utah, and raised on the family farm in Huntsville, a small town fifteen miles east of Ogden. Languages English Historical Note Return to Topįawn M. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.

Twenty-four hour advanced notice encouraged. Repository University of Utah Libraries, Special Collections Also present are articles, book reviews, and lectures. Other documents reflect Brodie's tenure as professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles, 1967-1977.

Morgan in which he comments extensively on the preparation of No Man Knows My History. Of interest is extensive correspondence with noted historian Dale L. The bulk of the collection deals with Brodie's five books: No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith The Mormon Prophet (1945) Thaddeus Stevens, Scourge of the South (1959) The Devil Drives: A Life of Sir Richard Burton (1967) Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History (1974) and Richard Nixon: The Shaping of His Character (1981). 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.

1932 1983 Quantity 25.25 linear feet Collection Number MS 0360 Summary The Fawn McKay Brodie papers (1932-1983) document the life (1915-1981) and writings of this well-known but controversial Utah-born author and university professor.

No Man Knows My History by Fawn M. Brodie