Reconsidering No Man Knows My History - A Deep Dive into Joseph Smith's Biography | Perfect for LDS History Enthusiasts & Religious Scholars

I had heard of Fawn's book over many years since returning from an LDS mission in Northern Mexico in 1961 and only recently read it in. Knowing something of its content ahead and toward objective purpose, I purchased both books at the same time. I found the essays both broad and authoratative in their analysis.Through my own years of bumps and bruises as Member of the Church, I have seen how the purely academic approach to faith and religion fails to satisfy. Perhaps that is why it took me so long to approach? True conversion is efected and sustained through study, application, prayer and self-abnegation, none of which surface in Brodie's experience after childhood, if even there. It doesn't seem her mother's influence brought any of this to bear? This is all observed biographically in "Reconsidering" through the course of reading and deepens ones analysis of Brodie's personality. This I find the book's main contribution to insight and "revelation".