Fawn Mckay
Fawn Brodie McKay was born September 15, 1915, was raised in Ogden Utah. She was a member of the Mormon Church's very first family, Fawn McKay devoted her brilliant literary talents and remarkable abilities in research to create an outstanding psycho-historical biographical biography of Joseph Smith, published in 1945. The book was titled The Only Man is able to know My History. The title was inspired by the sermon title given by Joseph Smith in 1844. In the sermon, he amazed his audience by stating: "You are not my friend and you've never listened to my voice. My history is unknown to anybody. I cannot tell it. Fawn (29 year old) wrote that after her confessional moment the three hundred and thirty writers have stood up to the occasion. A lot of people have detested him while others have deified. A few have even made an assessment. Not that the documents are not there, but that they are so contradictory. It's not an easy task to put together these documents by separating the first-hand versions from the third-hand versions and then combining Mormon narratives with non-Mormon ones to form a cohesive mosaic. This is both exciting, and also instructive. Fawn Brodie's life as a professional was devoted to this aim. Her research as well as her writing earned her worldwide fame. Thaddeus Stevens. "The Devil's Drive" (1959) The Southern Scourge. The Life of Sir Richard Burton (1967) Thomas Jefferson. The Intimate Histories (1974) as well as Richard Nixon.





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