Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History
Fawn M. BrodiePublished1974
Pages591
Formathardcover
PublisherW W Norton & Co Inc
Synopsis
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.
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About Fawn M. Brodie
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Fawn M. Brodie
1915–1981
Fawn McKay Brodie (September 15, 1915 – January 10, 1981) was an American biographer and one of the first female professors of history at UCLA, who is best known for Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History (1974), a work of psychobiography, and No Man Knows My History (1945), an early biography of Joseph Smith, the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement. [source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fawn_M._Brodie)
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