Episode Details

Mormon Stories is honored to welcome American historian and author Newell Bringhurt on the podcast 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 Fawn Brodie, her life as niece of LDS prophet David O. McKay, her faith, her influences to write one of the most influential books in Mormon history, and its reception by the church.

Show notes:

• Fawn Brodie: A Biographer's Life by Newell Bringhurst
• No Man Knows My History by Fawn M. Brodie
• "Appraisal of the So-Called Brodie Book," Anonymous, Deseret News, May 11, 1946
• "A Lesson from Dandy," by David O. McKay, 1968 General Conference
• 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
• "Can We Manipulate the Past?" Address by Fawn Brodie at the University of Utah in 1967
• "The Manipulation of History," by Marvin S. Hill, Dialogue:A Journal of Mormon Thought, Fall 1970
• Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling by Richard Lyman Bushman
• Newell Bringhurst's review of Rough Stone Rolling
• "My 'Affair' with Fawn Brodie: Motives, Pain, and Pleasure," by Newell G. Bringhurst, Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Fall 2002
• Other books by Newell Bringhurst
• Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History by Fawn M. Brodie
• Mormonism Unveiled: The Life and Confession of John D. Lee and Brigham Young by John D. Lee
• The Mountain Meadows Massacre by Juanita Brooks
• David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism by Gregory A. Prince
• "The Private vs. The Public David O. McKay: Profile of a Complex Personality," by Newell G. Bringhurst, Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Fall 1998
• Thaddeus Stevens: Scourge of the South by Fawn M. Brodie
• The Devil