Mormon Literature Database - No Man Knows My History

No Man Knows My History
The Life of Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet
by Fawn M. Brodie
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1945 (476p.)


Genre:		Biography / Memoir

Subjects: Smith, Joseph, 1805-1844;

Summary:
The book takes its title from a half-defiant, half-wistful pronouncement Joseph Smith himself made toward the close of the short, tragic melodrama that was his life. 'No man knows my history, ' he said. But the reader is made to known him fully--the man, the world from which he came, the extraordinary impact he made.

Annotations:
Included in 60 Significant Mormon Biographies

HBLL Call No: BX 8670.2 .B78 1971

Reviewed In:
Reconsidering No Man Knows My History: Fawn M. Brodie and Joseph Smith in Retrospect Edited by Newell G. Bringhurst
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 W. Nibley
Appraisal of the so-called Brodie Book
Secular or Sectarian History?: A Critique of No Man Knows My History by Marvin S. Hill
[Review of] No Man Knows My History 2d ed. by Marvin S. Hill
F. M. Brodie—"The Fasting Hermit and Very Saint of Ignorance": A Biographer and Her Legend by Louis Midgley