Between the works of "faithful historians" and historical works created by disillusioned Mormons, such as Fawn Brodie's "No Man Knows My History" (1945), grew the New Mormon History, which emphasized "examining the Mormon past in the hope of understanding it" rather than attacking or defending the religion itself. The most noted of the early New Mormon Historians was Leonard J. Arrington, who earned his doctorate in economics but whose early work culminated in the publication of "Great Basin Kingdom, An Economic History of the Latter-day Saints" (Harvard University Press, 1958), which became "a watershed in the writing of the New Mormon History." Arrington was important in the organization of the Mormon Historical Association in 1965 and became its first president.