Fawn McKay Brodie était une biographe et professeure d'histoire renommée pour son approche psychobiographique des personnages historiques. Elle a exploré en profondeur les vies d'individus marquants, examinant leurs motivations et leurs mondes intérieurs, souvent à travers le prisme de la psychologie freudienne. Le travail de Brodie était connu pour ses perspectives non conventionnelles, qui ont suscité la controverse tout en mettant en lumière des aspects historiques négligés. Son style narratif captivant offrait une exploration profonde de vies humaines complexes.
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.
"Brilliant. . . . [Brodie's] scholarship is wide and searching, and her understanding of Burton and his wife both deep and wide. She writes with clarity and zest. The result is a first class biography of an exceptional man."--J. H. Plumb, New York Times Book Review
An ambitious, perceptive portrayal of a complex man, this best-selling biography broke new ground in its exploration of Jefferson's inner life. Here for the first time we meet Jefferson as a man of feeling and passion. With a novelist's skill and meticulous scholarship, Fawn M. Brodie shows Jefferson as he wrestled with issues of revolution, religion, power, race, and love-ambivalences that exerted a subtle but powerful influence on his political writing and his decision making. The portrait that results adds a whole new depth to those of the past.