No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith

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The first paperback edition of the classic biography of the founder of the Mormon church, this book attempts to answer the questions that continue to surround Joseph Smith. Was he a genuine prophet, or a gifted fabulist who became enthralled by the products of his imagination and ended up being martyred for them 24 pages of photos. Map.

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Fawn M. Brodie(1915-1981), raised in Utah, was a biographer and history professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. She was the author of five biographies, four of which incorporate Freudian psychology, including No Man Knows My History- The Life of Joseph Smith, Thaddeus Stevens- Scourge of the South, and her bestseller,Thomas Jefferson- An Intimate History.