Fawn McKay Brodie audio-visual collection

Collection

Identifier: A0026

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

The Fawn McKay Brodie audio-visual collection (1946-1995, bulk 1971-1980) consists primarily of oral history interviews with people associated with President Richard Nixon, his life, his administartion, and the controversies surrounding it. Brodie conducted these interviews as part of the research for her 1981 book, Richard Nixon: The Shaping of his Character. In addition to Brodie's own interviews, the collection also contains archived dictation and radio news reports used by Brodie in her research, as well as a television interview with Brodie and a recording of her 1978 lecture, Nixon: The Child and the Man and other material relating to Brodie's works and interests. Unless otherwise noted, all materials in this collection have been digitized and are available on compact disc or DVD.

Dates

1946-1995
Majority of material found within 1971-1980

Creator

Brodie, Fawn McKay, 1915-1981 (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

Materials must be used on-site; no use of original material, access copies will be made available for viewing. Five business days advanced notice required. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law, condition of the material, or by donor.

Conditions Governing Use

The library does not claim to control copyright for all materials in the collection. An individual depicted in a reproduction has privacy rights as outlined in Title 45 CFR, part 46 (Protection of Human Subjects). For further information, please review the J. Willard Marriott Library's Use Agreement and Reproduction Request forms.

Biographical Note

Fawn McKay Brodie (1915-1981) was born Fawn McKay in Ogden, Utah and grew up in nearby Huntsville. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature from the University of Utah in 1934 and in 1936 completed a Master of Arts degree at the University of Chicago, where she met and married Bernard Brodie. After graduation began researching the history of the Book of Mormon and, in 1945, published No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith, which resulted in her 1946 excommunication from Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

After publishing two more biographies, Thaddeus Stevens: Scourge of the South (1959) and The Devil Drives: A Life of Sir Richard Burton (1967), Brodie began to teach history and American political biography at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History was published in 1974 and Richard Nixon: The Shaping of His Character in late 1981, nine monts after her death from lung cancer earlier that year.

Extent

61 Audiocassette

1 reel-to-reel audiotapes

3 Microcassette : Norelco

1 U-matic

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

The Fawn McKay Brodie audio-visual collection (1946-1995, bulk 1971-1980) consists primarily of oral history interviews with people associated with President Richard Nixon, his life, his administartion, and the controversies surrounding it. Brodie conducted these interviews as part of the research for her 1981 book, Richard Nixon: The Shaping of his Character. In addition to Brodie's own interviews, the collection also contains archived dictation and radio news reports used by Brodie in her research, as well as a television interview with Brodie and a recording of her 1978 lecture, Nixon: The Child and the Man and other material relating to Brodie's works and interests. Utah native Fawn Brodie was a history professor and biographer who published several books about historical figures, including Thomas Jefferson and Joseph Smith.

Arrangement

Materials are arranged in the order of their original donation.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Donated by Pamela Brodie and Bruce Brodie in 1982 and Steve Mayfield in 1999.

Related Materials

See also the Fawn McKay Brodie papers (MS 0360) and photograph collection (P0026).

Forms part of the Aileen H. Clyde 20th Century Women's Legacy Archives.