The Life of Historian Fawn McKay Brodie w/ Newell Bringhurst | Ep. 1498

Описание: Mormon Stories is honored to welcome historian and author Newell Bringhurt to discuss the life of Fawn Brodie, author of “No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith." We discuss Newell’s biography of Brodie, her life as the niece of President David O. McKay, her faith, her influences in writing one of the most influential books in Mormon history, and its reception by the Church.

Fawn Brodie: A Biographer's Life by Newell Bringhurst
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No Man Knows My History by Fawn M. Brodie
https://amzn.to/3MqoezV

"Appraisal of the So-Called Brodie Book," Anonymous, Deseret News, May 11, 1946
https://bit.ly/3HS9oyQ

"A Lesson from Dandy," by David O. McKay, General Conference 1968
https://bit.ly/3hKBBwN

No, Ma'am, That's Not History: A Brief Review of Mrs. Brodie's Reluctant Vindication of a Prophet She Seeks to Expose by Hugh Nibley
https://amzn.to/375Za10

"Can We Manipulate the Past?" Fawn Brodie address at the University of Utah in 1967
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"The Manipulation of History," by Marvin Hill, Dialogue, Fall 1970
https://bit.ly/3sI6lEX

Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling by Richard Lyman Bushman
https://amzn.to/3CiLvPz

Bringhurst's review of Rough Stone Rolling
https://bit.ly/3tqIdFO

"My 'Affair' with Fawn Brodie: Motives, Pain, and Pleasure," by Newell Bringhurst, Dialogue, Fall 2002
https://bit.ly/3pFaMhW

Mormonism Unveiled: The Life and Confession of John D. Lee and Brigham Young
https://amzn.to/3KotEtv

The Mountain Meadows Massacre by Juanita Brooks
https://amzn.to/3tsAC9U

David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism by Gregory A. Prince
https://amzn.to/3tyUkRf

"The Private vs. The Public David O. McKay: Profile of a Complex Personality," by Newell Bringhurst, Dialogue, Fall 1998
https://bit.ly/3hHa3s5

Brigham Young and the Expanding American Frontier by Newell G. Bringhurst
https://amzn.to/3MtzqeY

Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet by Dan Vogel
https://amzn.to/3tvUTeI

Brigham Young: American Moses by Leonard J. Arrington
https://amzn.to/3IO3qjJ

In Sacred Loneliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith by Todd M. Compton
https://amzn.to/3tqIx7u

Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale Smith by Linda King Newell and Valeen Tippetts Avery
https://amzn.to/3MsA9Ns

Early Mormonism and the Magic Worldview by D. Michael Quinn
https://amzn.to/3CfOWGN

Mormon Stories' interview with Richard Bushman
https://bit.ly/3ILHlSF

The American Religion by Harold Bloom
https://amzn.to/3hFSV5V

An Insider's View of Mormon Origins by Grant Palmer
https://amzn.to/3pEUJk2

Saints, Slaves, and Blacks: The Changing Place of Black People within Mormonism by Newell Bringhurst
https://amzn.to/3HS9Kpa


00:00:00 Introduction and opening remarks
00:11:02 Fawn’s childhood in Huntsville and her deep faith as a child
00:26:44 A star debater at Weber College; almost married Dilworth Jensen, the uncle of future Church historian Elder Marlin K. Jensen
00:32:10 Fawn's grandfather is forced out of BYU for teaching evolution and later commits suicide
00:36:27 Fawn's sister elopes with Dilworth's brother, who is not accepted by her family, causing Fawn to wonder if she wants to follow Dilworth to Berkeley
00:43:10 Fawn pursues her Master's Degree in English Critical Literature at the University of Chicago, where she marries Bernard Brodie; neither family approves because the Brodies are Jewish
00:51:50 Fawn gets a job at the university library and begins researching the origins of the Book of Mormon
01:02:19 Fawn as a working mother
01:08:00 The production of No Man Knows My History
01:18:05 Fawn's collaboration with other historians, who tempered her original thesis that Smith was a conscious fraud
01:28:17 Reactions nationwide, and within the Church, to No Man Knows My History
01:59:37 Fawn is tried for apostasy and excommunicated, without the Church ever considering whether her book was true
02:22:07 Fawn's life as a successful historian post-excommunication
02:40:42 Marital and sexual troubles in an otherwise devoted and loving marriage
02:44:51 Fawn's influence on lifting the priesthood ban
02:55:03 Fawn asks her brother for a priesthood blessing on her deathbed
03:02:51 Comparing No Man Knows My History and Rough Stone Rolling
03:16:42 Rough Stone Rolling as a precursor to the Gospel Topics essays
03:23:53 Our favorite things about No Man Knows My History
03:36:14 What was Fawn Brodie's personal opinion of Joseph Smith?
03:41:23 Could Joseph Smith have written the Book of Mormon on his own?
03:44:19 Was Joseph a sexual predator?
03:53:14 Psychoanalysis in No Man Knows My History
03:55:13 Fawn wrote the book when she was only in her 20s, with very little source material and three small children in tow
03:58:34 Closing remarks

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