Reconsidering No man knows my history : Fawn M. Brodie and Joseph Smith in retrospect /

Fawn Brodie's biography of the founding Mormon prophet has received both praise and condemnation since it's publication in 1945. In 1995, at a symposium to mark its fiftieth anniversary, several scholars gathered together to re-examine Brodie, her Joseph Smith biography and its continuing...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Bringhurst, Newell G.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, 1996.
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Table of Contents:
  • A biography of the biography : the research and writing of No man knows my history / Newell G. Bringhurst
  • Applause, attack, and ambivalence : varied responses to No man knows my history / Newell G. Bringhurst
  • Secular or sectarian history? : a critique of No man knows my history / Marvin S. Hill
  • Fawn McKay brodie : at the intersection of secularism and personal alienation / Mario S. De Pillis
  • Literary style in No man knows my history : an analysis / Lavina Fielding Anderson
  • Fawn Brodie on Joseph Smith's plural wives and polygamy : a critical view / Todd Compton
  • From old to new Mormon history : Fawn Brodie and the legacy of scholarly analysis of Mormonism / Roger D. Launius.