Sydney Ahlstrom apotheosized Brodie in his magisterial synopsis of American religious history, deeming her “sympathetic and insightful account” of Smith’s life and work “unequaled.” 4 The book’s abiding presence-abetted by its release as a paperback in 1995-continues to generate strong passions, especially among Latter-day Saints, although their judgments are more diverse than was true a half century ago. Over the years No Man Knows My History has more powerfully influenced how both professional historians and the wider public view Joseph Smith than has any other single text. The biography further strained Brodie’s already ambivalent relationship with her father, an assistant to the LDS Church’s Council of the Twelve, and hastened her excommunication. 2 Unsurprisingly, non-Mormons typically favored the book, while Mormons fulminated against it. 1 Quickly fulfilling Herbert Brayer’s prophecy that it “will probably be one of the most highly praised as well as highly condemned historical works of 1945,” No Man Knows My History elicited both wholesale acclaim (“the best book about the Mormons so far published,” Bernard De Voto enthused a “definitive treatment,” seconded her friend Dale Morgan) and wholehearted condemnation (“the statement made by Joseph Smith that ‘no man knows my history,’” Milton Hunter concluded, “is still true as far as Fawn M. Urn:oclc:827731958 Republisher_date 20180903164824 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 568 Scandate 20180829230947 Scanner Scanningcenter hongkong Top_six true Tts_version v1.Anyone (like me) approaching the study of Mormon history wet behind the ears soon confronts Fawn McKay Brodie’s famous (or, in certain LDS circles, infamous) biography of Joseph Smith. Urn:lcp:nomanknowsmyhist00brod_1:lcpdf:69e8dd0c-6b6f-4852-b8f6-428787db1eca Extramarc University of Toronto Foldoutcount 0 Identifier nomanknowsmyhist00brod_1 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t4cp16c7c Invoice 1213 Isbn 9780679730545Ġ679730540 Lccn 90050139 Ocr tesseract 4.1.1 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_module_version 0.0.5 Ocr_parameters -l eng Openlibrary OL1888700M Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 16:49:45 Bookplateleaf 0006 Boxid IA1343520 City New York Donorįriendsofthesanfranciscopubliclibrary Edition 2.
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