Fawn McKay Brodie fue una biógrafa y profesora de historia reconocida por su enfoque psicobiográfico hacia figuras históricas. Profundizó en las vidas de individuos prominentes, explorando sus motivaciones y mundos interiores, a menudo a través de la lente de la psicología freudiana. El trabajo de Brodie se destacó por sus perspicacias poco convencionales, que provocaron controversias y, al mismo tiempo, sacaron a la luz aspectos históricos pasados por alto. Su cautivador estilo narrativo ofreció una profunda exploración de vidas humanas complejas.
"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
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.
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.