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Show The Salt Lake Tribune UTAH Tuesday, September 7, 1999 Books Written By FawnBrodie THEASSOCIATED PRESS A list of the books writ- ten by Fawn McKay 5rovith publication dates: ) Man Knows My The Life of Jo- Smith the Mormon Bnet 1945, revised if Thaddeus Stevens, Scourge ofthe South, 1959 WThe Devil Drives: A Life ofSir RichardF. Bur. ton, 1967 From Crossbowto H- Bomb (with Bernard Brodie), 973 197 Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History, 1974 WRichard Nixon: The Tribune File Photo Fawn M. Brodie signs copies of her 1974 Jefferson biography. Biographer Brodie Is the Subject Of a New Book Shapingof His Character ing Pandora’s box I have seen this before with devout Mormonreactions to my And here [with Jefferson] we @ Continued from B-1 F. Burton, as born Mormon in small-town Utah, Though still on the church rolls and the president of the Mormon History Association, he no longer practices Andhehasthebiographer’s ob session with — even love for —his topic. to leave even heridol un- probed As she once said, ‘No man is hero to his psychoanalyst The first two printings of Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History sold out in months and the book spent 13 weeks on The New published in 1974, she said she “married to him.” She flirted vith her secondsubject, congress man and Reconstruction leader Thaddeus Stevens. and herthird fieldof psychobiography — which she experimented with in. the imstill trying to make up for lost time? She even tore into Jefferson er hero. The third president was ‘cused while in office of father ig children by his slave after his ife died. andjustlast year genet- tests of Hemings’ descendants emedto offer proof. But Jefferyn vehemently opposedinterra ial relationships, and 20th-centu scholars left the Hemings umors basically untouched until Brodie presented her theory in a speechin 1971 By then a mother of three, a srofessor at the University of Cal se Richard Bu the Gou- Chairof Historyat Columbia University and a Mor- monwritinghis own biography of Smith, mybrothers wouldjustlike tose money allocation to spend on other pro- apostate re reminded of the old saying, which now appears to be truer thanever: “It ts an evil bird that fouls its own nest. — Israel Smith, grandsonofJoseph Smith, writing in 1945 Brodie’s fascination with Smith, Bringhurst suggests, grew out of frustrating vears watching her meek father bullied by his wealthier siblings. She blamed her uncle David's speculative ventures for her family’s poverty — despite being the town’s most ical. In 1946, Brigham Young University Professor Hugh Nibley wrote a pamphlet called, No Ma'am, That's Not History, which picked apart Brodie’s thesis and was wildly popular in L ‘tah en yearslater, he added a preface calling Brodie’s book a remarkable monument of bio- graphical mendacity.” consistency was Hesaid in- the least of her vices, and accused her of not reading the documents she prominent family, the Mc quoted lived in a drafty farmhouse without indoor plumbing — andcalled But then, all of Brodie’s books received mixed reviews. Her Nixon book. cobbledtogether quickly hima hypocrite cle. printed under a pseudonymin Infact, her first publishedarti- inher final months as she fought lung cancer, wascriticized for be- the church bled the poor with ing too psychological but lauded at the same time for its documentation of his youth 1938, was an attack on the Mor mon welfare system that claimed Glass Act Salt Lake Provo/Orem Ogden Area 533-8844 373-8726 392-1072 vegetables Blackcredited The Nature én servancy with putting togethér a urban sprawl but allows his fam ily to keep farming perpetuallyor even sell to another farmer. “The Nature Conservancy ‘is doing the good part.” Black said I'm just getting the money.” al conservation easement in Davis profit group. such as The Nature By contrast, the Quality Growth Act this year required anyease- SIDING SPECIAL = gal Sssaaaqeaqesnaae\ 70 NEFREEin Home Estimates: N 240% 5 ssa cas to é Ute SALT LAKE SHOW ROOM eer eibaeE Ass She for 9.5.30 13. 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STORAGE SOLUTION, HAY FEVER RESEARCH STUDY *Glass Act will waive up to $125.00 of your Insurance Deductible deal thatsaves theland from stb- ervation fund dictates that a non- ifornia at Los Angeles and an au thor with several books under her belt, Brodie knew she was reopen- Black said he wants topreserve his farm perpetually, and might considerselling more easements Infact, it is the first agricultur to the easement. Thelegislation @ Vinyl Siding @ Eaves & Overhangs @ Seamless Raingutter an erate Condie’s Foodsin Salt Bake City, for which he supplies salad an experiment out it is unclear who can hold title Black said. “T and opposed to [just] open space. if this transaction goes smoothly I don’t want to sell my whole farmoff to do this,” he said. “It’s with his board, Peterson pointed prove her thesis. Others have been far morecrit- family, open space,” Lewissaid When hediscussed the issue Go Maintenance Free! Mormon Productivity was an important the Agriculture Department's ‘It's food-producing land, a posed easements in Cache and San Juan counties. Applications to the new Quality Growth Commission's fund are due next month, and Montague said The Nature Conservancy for $175,000 from it 's acreage and raise the remainder privately Mrs. Brodie, it is claimed, isa in an attempt to andcall the rest of the grassyarea open space, hesaid “To methat’snotreal valuable high-yielding some agricultural ground left.’ Black's brothers and partners op- she was “tone-deaf” to Smith's religious language and left too much crucial data “on the cutting- roomfloor” opmentsthat are closing in on his farm simply cluster the houses factor in deciding where to spend fuel for her crities. ' fromthe Utah Church. If so, we Why is it. | wonder, that I pre rsomeone I can tearinto?” Bro. tie wrote. “Is it because until I vas twenty I was such a supreme good and obedient child that I turned against her own people,” To Black, open space means farming. Too manyhousing devel- Legislature to changeit. That leaves the department $50,000 plus next year’s $100,000 Though Bushmanpraises Brodie’s fluid writing style, he s lished posthumously in 1981, she he openlydespised. I think she’s sort of thought of as a traitor, that she could have ty Growth Act and plansto ask the Black's farm is biography on Nixon — provided renegade Mormon, born into a tackled Richard Nixon — a man fromvoluntary labor posed that provision in the Quali- tables. Smith book and reveledin for her {ashing British explorer Richard Burton. For her last book, pub mandatory tithes and benefited York Times bestseller list. Yet Brodie’s forays into the new Brodie sawit in herself. When writing her Jefferson biography felt ity of applying psychology tobi- wherein the state. but never With state funds dedicated te preserying open space The Nature Conservancy op- ground for onions and othervege- lished the fund, and he approved Conservancy, musthold thetitle by Richard 1963 been donated or bought el to be held by stateor local governments. $50,000 toward the purchase. by Frederick Hawkins was too fascinated by the possibil- Like his subject, Bringhurst @ Continued from B-1 authorizing theagricultural pres- Piercy, 1962 B The Cityof the Saints have adeity as important to many Americans as Joseph Smithis to many Mormons But Brodie, herself in therapy County. 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