Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1974. Reprint. Eighth printing. Hardcover. 594 pages. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Price clipped. Name of previous owner present. DJ has some wear and soiling, edge tears and chips. Fawn McKay Brodie (September 15, 1915 – January 10, 1981) was a 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 and still influential biography of Joseph Smith, the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement. Raised in Utah in a respected, if impoverished, Latter-day Saint (LDS Church) family, Fawn McKay drifted away from Mormonism during her years of graduate work at the University of Chicago. She married the ethnically Jewish national defense expert Bernard Brodie, with whom she had three children. She is best known for her five biographies, four of which incorporate insights from Freudian psychology. Her best-selling psychobiography of Thomas Jefferson was the first serious study to examine evidence related to accounts that he had taken his slave Sally Hemings as a concubine, and Brodie concluded such accounts were true. More