Item Detail
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10114
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6
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17
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English
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Fawn M. Brodie, 'Mormondom's Lost Generation,' and No Man Knows My History
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Journal of Mormon History
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1990
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16
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Mormon History Association
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11-23
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[1991 Mormon Historical Association Winner for Best Article]
Although critics and reviewers tried to disassociate Fawn Brodie and her book from the Mormon community, claiming that it was the product of influences entirely outside the Latter-day Saint community, such was not the case. In many ways, her book was the product of a regional literary movement which was active in the late 1930s and 1940s. The authors in this group had ties to Utah or the Mormon community and produced works touching on Mormon themes. However their works were published by eastern publishers and the authors tended to be alienated from their socio-cultural environment. This article reviews those people who were active in this Mormon intellectual environment who assisted or influenced Brodie in the writing of "No Man Knows My History." They principally included Dean Brimhall, Dale Morgan, and Wilford Poulson, although others were peripherally involved. The author concludes that scholars of Mormon studies should be grateful for the pathbreaking role which Fawn Brodie played in ushering in a new era of toleration of the dissenting and questioning voice in the Church.
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Utah Historians and the Reconstruction of Western History -
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Applause, Attack, and Ambivalence--Varied Responses to Fawn M. Brodie's No Man Knows My History
Dale Morgan on Early Mormonism : Correspondence and a New History
Fawn Brodie and Her Quest for Independence
Juanita Brooks : Mormon Woman Historian
Mormon Country
Mormondom's Lost Generation : The Novelists of the 1940s
No Man Knows My History : The Life of Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet
Recollections of 'Old Nauvooers' : Memories from Oral History
Rocky Mountain Empire : The Latter-Day Saints Today
Sam Brannan and the Mormons In Early California
The Centennial of Mormonism
The Great Salt Lake
The Mormon Corporate Empire
The Mountain Meadows Massacre
The Year of Decision, 1846
Utah