Fawn Brodie is a woman who researched her subject carefully and then, and this can be proven, created her own make-believe sources and quoted them. She took actual events and then twisted them ever so slightly to add a negative bent to the event. How do I know this - I have spent the last two years in extensive research of Joseph Smith, Jr. I read dozens of books, diaries, letters and journals. Fawn Brodie's was by far, the worst one I read because she took a personal agenda and applied it to an historic subject. She should have stuck to the truth, not created quotes and sources, then she may have had a real book on Joseph Smith, Jr.