Fawn M. Brodie

Fawn McKay Brodie (September 15, 1915 – January 10, 1981) was a biographer and professor of history at UCLA.

Quotes

• A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.
  • Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History, ch. 1 (1974)
• There is, of course, a gold mine or a buried treasure on every mortgaged homestead. Whether the farmer ever digs for it or not, it is there, haunting his daydreams when the burden of debt is most unbearable.
  • No Man Knows My History, ch. 2 (1945)
• A man's memory is bound to be a distortion of his past in accordance with his present interests, and the most faithful autobiography is likely to mirror less what a man was than what he has become.
  • No Man Knows My History, ch. 19 (1945)
• Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with suspense.
  • Los Angeles Times Home Magazine (Feb. 20, 1977)
• Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.
  • Los Angeles Times Home Magazine (Feb. 20, 1977)

External links

• Biography of Fawn Brodie
• Excerpts from No Man Knows My History
• No Ma'am that's Not History - full text of the booklet by Hugh Nibley