Fawn M. Brodie
Fawn M. Brodie
Fawn McKay Brodiewas a biographer and one of the first female professors of history at UCLA, who is best known for Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History, a work of psychobiography, and No Man Knows My History, an early and still influential non-hagiographic biography of Joseph Smith, the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth15 September 1915
CountryUnited States of America
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Superficial parallels were drawn between the Church and the Nazi Party, with its emphasis on active involvement by every member. The women's auxiliary of the Party and the Hitler Youth were regarded by some as secular equivalents to the Church's Relief Society, MIA, and the Scouting programs.
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A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.
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But teaching is like climbing a mountain.
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... over two hundred women, apparently at their own request, were sealed as wives to Joseph Smith after his death in special temple ceremonies. Moreover, a great many distinguished women in history, including several Catholic saints, were also sealed to Joseph Smith in Utah. I saw these astonishing lists in the Latter-day Saint Genealogical Archives in Salt Lake City in 1944.