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M.E.Anderson

Spellbinding and Beautifully Researched

Rezension aus Deutschland vom 18. Juli 2000

Mrs. Brodie, a highly respected historian, has written what must still be the definitive book on this charismatic and controversial American figure. Since she was raised a Mormon and had access to documents that the Church normally forbids to outsiders, she is able to separate out aspects of the "official" biographies of Smith from the realities of his life and times. I was struck by how admiring, in many ways, she is of him: unlike the Church's view, which paints him as completely unlearned (thereby strengthening the argument that the Book of Mormon had to be the word of God), she celebrates his energetic inventiveness, the facility with words and ideas that might have made him a novelist had he had a more conventional education. She also has meticulously researched the trends and climate of the times which inform practically every word of the Book of Mormon. A fair and admirable piece of history writing.

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Eric Hoff

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS WRIITEN ABOUT FOUNDATION OF MORMONISM

Rezension aus Deutschland vom 21. Dezember 1999

I'm real partial to Fawn Brodie's writing style. She is a very talented writer with the ability to share historical facts and still be gripping. I appreciate the well documented script. I sense from the mormon responses that they have some denial issues happening. I suppose if one really took a truthful and honest look at the foundation of the LDS church it would prove to be mostly sand. Fawn is in line with truth. I'm glad that she took on this subject and hope that she will perhaps add to her collection by writing more on this subject. This religion is built upon the sand, And the floods will come, and the winds will blow, and will beat upon that house, and it will fall: and great will be the fall of it. Sand represents falshoods and the beginning of the church is permeated with them as expressed in this book. Jesus is the Rock! Build on him... Buy this book and share it with your freinds. I appreciate the accuracy.

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I refused to give it back to the library

Rezension aus Deutschland vom 25. August 1998

I was a lifetime Mormon till I went through a divorce and decided to take a critical look at my own beliefs. Having been born in the Church, serving a full time Mission and marrying in the temple I thought I knew all about Joseph Smith and the history of Mormonism. This book changed my life more than the Book of Mormon ever could have. For the first time many missing parts of the Mormon puzzle began to fit together and my life, as I understood it came crashing down. I literally threw up as I discovered what a bastard Joseph Smith was. No, this book isn't perfect, but having been written in 1945, it has proven itself to be the definitive expose of Mormonism's founder. I bear witness it has more truth in it than you will find inside the whitewashed history of the Mormon Church. I found myself unable to return my copy to the library and chose to pay the replacement cost. It is one of my most cherished possessions.

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COREY HARDING

A NON-SENSATIONALIST LOOK AT JOSEPH SMITH

Rezension aus Deutschland vom 24. Juli 1999

I FELT THIS BOOK TO BE A GOOD READ ALTHOUGH LESS SCANDALOUS THAN I THOUGHT IT WAS GOING TO BE. SHE DID NOT REALLY EXPLAIN WELL WHY THE MORMONS WERE SO HATED IN MISSOURI. IT IS BECAUSE THEY WERE THIEVING GENTILE PROPERTY AND THIS WAS NOT FULLY DEVELOPED IN HER NARRATIVE. ALSO , AND THIS IS A COMMON COMPLAINT, SHE TRIES TO GUESS AT HIS MOTIVES. A VERY DIFFICULT TASK INDEED. SHE IS NO PSYCHIATRIST YET SHE THEORISES ABOUT HIS BRAIN QUITE A LOT. I WOULD HAVE LIKED HER TO EXPLAIN IN THE BOOK WHY SHE DID NOT CONSIDER THE REPORTS OF HIS TIME IN AN INSANE INSTITUTION WORTH MENTIONING IN THE MAIN BODY OF HER WORK. HER POLITICS ALSO SEEPS INTO THE PAGES. DESPITE THESE CRITICISMS, IT IS OVERALL A VERY GOOD BOOK AND I RECOMMEND IT AS BASIC TO ANYONE CONSIDERING BECOMING A MORMON.

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B. Himes

Excellent in the original. Later print may be edited!!

Rezension aus Deutschland vom 8. November 1998

I grew up 20 miles from Palmyra NY and thought I knew about the Mormon Church, having written reports on it. Then in the '50's I lived 5 years in Salt Lake and knew Mrs Brodie's sister and brother-in-law. These girls were neices of David O MacKay, President of the Mormon Church, and after they served their "missions" in Switzerland, Fawn and Louise each married and Fawn attended the University of Chicage. We were told that Fawn had written the book as a disertation for the University of Chicago and her uncle had allowed her to use the church records for research. (Records not on display for the public.) As a result of her research, she lost her faith in the church and she and her sister and their husbands were what I would call excommunicated. I finally found the book to read in Rochester NY in 1960 by special order because it was not available in Utah and was out of print in other places. I'm happy it has been reprinted but I'll bet it isn't on bookstore shelves in Salt Lake City!!!!! Fawn Brodie has since died. She was a thourough researcher. Her Jefferson biography was well received and reviewed.

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Got history, footnotes and pictures!

Rezension aus Deutschland vom 6. April 2000

This book is considered anti-mormon by many but reading it I didn't feel that way. I felt it was very comprehensive. Many say that her sources are distorted to produce a negative image. However most people have only read info from second hand sources while Brodie used first hand sources. There are a lot of history which is very informative and I believe every LDS and Non-LDS alike should read. This is quite a popular book on Mormonism but there are a lot of other books worth looking at also.

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Michael Steinberg

An exceptional life of one of our most extraordinary men...

Rezension aus Deutschland vom 3. Januar 1997

Long reviled by Latter-day Saints, Fawn Brodie's life of
Joseph Smith is still impressive for its depth, its
thoughtfulness, and its struggle with the exact nature of
Smith's calling. Her respect for the man is undeniable;
what stung when the book was released in 1945 (and must still
hurt today) are her religious naturalism and her conclusion
that Smith's spiritual legacy was "barren". Yet the book is
far from an anti-Mormon tract or an exercise in debunking;
one finishes it with a sense of Smith's extraordinary gifts
and a great appreciation for the complexity and confusion
of American life in his time, a psychological and religious
ferment of which Mormonism is both a product and a legacy.

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Olaf Alders

A highly readable, yet academic work

Rezension aus Kanada am 15. November 2017

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This is a well researched and heavily footnoted work. Also, it's a revised edition, so some allowances have been made for the results of research since the initial printing of the book. Brodie did a spectacular job of summing up Joseph Smith's history, making it readable and even entertaining. There were points where I couldn't put it down.

I also want to point out that this is history -- it's not "anti-Mormon" literature. In fact, if you ask me, there are times when she goes too easy on Smith. All in all, a really great resource for Mormons and non-Mormons alike. If you're a fan of American history, you may also find this book fascinating.

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Phil

No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith : The Mormon Prophet

Rezension aus Australien vom 16. August 2019

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What an amazing insight into the man, Joseph Smith. It certainly confirms my belief in the gullibility of humans.

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Jean-Pierre

Anatomie d'une fraude

Rezension aus Frankreich vom 16. November 2014

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Excellent livre, écrit par une historienne méticuleuse, ou l'on apprend comment un analphabète a réussi a devenir riche et puissant grace au mensonge et a la manipulation.

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Strangerbird

A possible interpretation of Mormon origins.

Rezension aus dem Vereinigten Königreich vom 27. Februar 2013

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For a very long time the only biographies of Joseph Smith or of Mormonism were either hagiographic, or else deeply cynical depictions of the founder as a charlatan. Fawn Brodie changed all that in 1945 with her `No Man knows my History', which was a first serious attempt by a professional historian to understand the Mormon prophet within his context, and in a manner which did not depend on accepting his supernatural experiences in the terms in which they have been described by Smith and his followers. Committed Mormons may dispute much of the author's evidence as Hugh Nibley, famously did in `No Ma'am, That's not History', and people can argue till the cows come home about who is right and who isn't. But the important point is that Brodie's is the work of a historian which presents plausible possible ways of viewing Smith's life and work which is not dictated by the exigencies of Mormon proselytisation. For that reason Fawn Brodie produced what must be regarded as a seminal work. Opening up, as she did, a new and professional dimension to the study of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, led first to her excommunication and then to her depiction by the hierarchy as the Anti-Christ. When I first read the book over thirty years ago I must have read the 1945 edition. For the 1970 revision presents some information which is new to me, delving deeply into the Nauvoo period and the clandestine manner in which polygamy was introduced. Brodie writes elegantly and with a capacity to enthral the reader, at the same time reserving judgment on much that is unclear in a history of the frontier, befogged by lack of primary sources. It is essential material for anyone interested in the history of Mormonism and of the American west.

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Bestgb

Brilliant, Balanced Look at Religious Genius

Rezension aus den Vereinigten Staaten vom 28. Februar 2008

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Like Ben Franklin, Kit Carson, Thomas Edison and Henry Ford, Joseph Smith was incandescent in a uniquely American way. The church he founded is America's most successful home grown religion. A century and a half after Smith's murder by an Illinois mob, the Mormon Church flourishes, with over 12 million members worldwide. You don't have to believe he was divinely inspired - and Fawn Brodie clearly doesn't - to be impressed by his vision, energy, resilience, entrepreneurial skill and improvisational brilliance. Smith was undoubtedly a religious "genius" - William James' term for charismatic founders of new religious movements. This superb biography gives us the life in all its tumult and glory while skillfully refuting the larger than life myths it spawned.

As Brodie shows, even as a semi-literate farm boy in upstate New York, Smith was a magnet for the social and theological currents whirling through 1820s America. His Book of Mormon, a mythic tale of warring tribes in the primordial American wilderness, drew upon magic, folklore, superstition, Masonic ritual, the old and new testaments of the Christian bible, racial prejudice against blacks and Indians, and the crude anthropology of his day. He grounded its authenticity in the Angel Moroni, who allegedly led him to the golden plates on which the book was inscribed in ancient hieroglyphics. He, Joseph, claimed only to be the messenger.

Brodie has less interest in the mysteries of divine revelation than she does in the mysteries of human charisma. Smith's powerful voice, penetrating gaze and bluff, good-natured personality drew men and women from all walks of life into his orbit. His followers loved the man, according to Brodie, and saw in him the physical embodiment of their church. He was also shrewd enough to custom fit his religion to the character of his time, making Mormonism an ingenious meld of the secular and the spiritual. To a people eager for miracles, he proclaimed several. He gave Mormonism a patina of democracy, creating governing councils and making each member accountable for the overall health of the church. He also played on the willingness of Americans to see evidence of God's favor in the size of their bank balances. In Smith's religion, there was little friction between the good life on earth and the one that comes after.

As the Mormons migrated west through Ohio, Missouri and Illinois, Smith updated his theology through periodic revelations from the Almighty. His most controversial revelation had to do with the taking of multiple wives. Interestingly, it wasn't the practice of polygamy that led to Mormon persecution during Smith's lifetime. Polygamy was too explosive for even Smith to sell to his followers, so he kept this revelation a secret outside his inner circle. The persecution the sect endured in Missouri and Illinois had to do with local fears that Smith's religious army would tip the balance of political power. That the prophet and his followers were cruelly persecuted, particularly in Missouri, is beyond dispute. By being tone deaf to their neighbors' concerns and by proclaiming themselves above secular authority, they created a decent portion of the resistance they encountered.

At the time of his death in 1844, Smith was in the middle of a run for President of the United States. He was presiding over his church, the town of Nauvoo, a private military army, a vast financial and real estate empire, and a secret squadron of "fifty of so" wives. As he said in a sermon to his followers, "I don't blame anyone for not believing in my history. If I had not experienced what I have, I could not have believed it myself."

His was one of the most thrilling high wire acts ever seen in America. Brodie tells the life clearly, does an outstanding job of documenting her assertions, and gives credit where it's due. While not overlooking his tendency to claim divine justification for all too human urges, she has sympathy for the struggle he waged between "what he really was and what he most desperately wanted to be." If you believe Smith had an actual pipeline to God, you'll probably see this book as a hatchet job. If you see him as a brilliant but flawed human being, you'll appreciate this balanced, clear-eyed biography.

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