Specific works/Fawn McKay Brodie

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These wiki articles address claims made by this author.

• No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith
  • Index of claims

Reviews of author's work(s)

• Charles L. Cohen, "No Man Knows My Psychology: Fawn Brodie, Joseph Smith, and Psychoanalysis," Brigham Young University Studies 44 no. 1 (2005), 55–78. PDF link
• Louis Midgley, "F. M. Brodie "The Fasting Hermit and Very Saint of Ignorance": A Biographer and Her Legend (Review of No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith, The Mormon Prophet by Fawn McKay Brodie)," FARMS Review of Books 8/2 (1996): 147–230. off-site PDF link
• Louis Midgley, "The Legend and Legacy of Fawn Brodie (Fawn McKay Brodie: A Biographer's Life)," FARMS Review of Books 13/1 (2001): 21–72. off-site PDF link
• Louis Midgley, "Comments on Critical Exchanges (Review of: "A Hard Day for Professor Midgley: An Essay for Fawn McKay Brodie")," FARMS Review of Books 13/1 (2001): 91–126. off-site PDF link
• Hugh Nibley, No, Ma'am, That's Not History: A Brief Review of Mrs. Brodie's Reluctant Vindication of a Prophet She Seeks to Expose (Bookcraft: 1946). off-site
• Gary F. Novak, "Review of Dale Morgan On Early Mormonism: Correspondence and a New History by John Phillip Walker," FARMS Review of Books 8/1 (1996): 122–167. off-site PDF link

Further reading

Specific Works

• Richard Abanes
  • One Nation Under Gods — (Index of claims)
  • Becoming Gods: A Closer Look at 21st-Century Mormonism — (Index of claims)
  • Inside Today's Mormonism (2007 re-issue of Becoming Gods)
• Will Bagley
  • Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows
• Fawn McKay Brodie
  • No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith — (Index of claims)
• Todd Compton
  • In Sacred Loneliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith
• Ed Decker
  • Decker's Complete Handbook on Mormonism
  • The God Makers (book)
  • The God Makers (film/cartoon)
• Sally Denton
  • American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows
• Dan Erickson
• Norman L. Geisler
  • The Counterfeit Gospel of Mormonism
• Hurlbut-Howe affidavits
  • The Hurlbut affidavits
• Ronald V. Huggins
  • From Captain Kidd's Treasure Ghost to the Angel Moroni: Changing Dramatis Personae in Early Mormonism
• Jon Krakauer
  • Under the Banner of Heaven
• Charles Larson
  • By His Own Hand upon Papyrus: A New Look at the Joseph Smith Papyri
• Walter Martin
  • The Kingdom of the Cults
• McKeever & Johnson
  • Mormonism 101
• Rodney L. Meldrum
  • DNA Evidence for Book of Mormon Geography
  • Prophecies and Promises
  • ''Rediscovering the Book of Mormon Remnant through DNA
• Brent L. Metcalfe
  • Reinventing Lamanite Identity
• Christopher Nemelka
  • The "Book of Lehi"
• Linda King Newell and Valeen Tippetts Avery
  • Mormon Enigma
• Richard N. Ostling and Joan K. Ostling
  • Mormon America: The Power and the Promise — (Index of claims)
• Grant Palmer
  • An Insider's View of Mormon Origins — (Index of claims)
• Bruce H. Porter
  • Prophecies and Promises
• B.H. Roberts
  • Studies of the Book of Mormon
• D. Michael Quinn
  • Early Mormonism and the Magic World View — (Index of claims)
  • "LDS Church Authority and New Plural Marriages, 1890–1904"
  • The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power
  • The Mormon Hierarchy: Extensions of Power — (Index of claims)
  • Same-Sex Dynamics Among Nineteenth-Century Americans: A Mormon Example — (Index of claims)
• George D. Smith
  • Nauvoo Polygamy — (Index of claims)
• Carol Whang Shutter
  • September Dawn (film)
• Simon G. Southerton
  • Losing a Lost Tribe: Native Americans, DNA, and the Mormon Church — (Index of claims)
• Jerald and Sandra Tanner
  • Answering Mormon Scholars
  • Answering Mormon Scholars (Vol. 2)
  • Archaeology and the Book of Mormon
  • Covering Up the Black Hole
  • The Changing World of Mormonism — (Index of claims)
  • Mormonism: Shadow or Reality? — (Index of claims)