Recreates the life of the Mormon prophet, illuminating the development and early years of the Mormon Church

Product Description: An ambitious, perceptive portrayal of a complex man, this best-selling biography broke new ground in its exploration of Jefferson's inner life.Here for the first time we meet Jefferson as a man of feeling and passion. With a novelist's skill and meticulous scholarship, Fawn M...read more

Portrays Nixon as a complex, multicharacter man with grandiose fantasies who used lies and denials to gain approval and to catapult himself to power, only to engineer his own destruction

Product Description: "Brilliant. . . . [Brodie's] scholarship is wide and searching, and her understanding of Burton and his wife both deep and wide. She writes with clarity and zest. The result is a first class biography of an exceptional man."—J. H...read more

Product Description: The first paperback edition of the classic biography of the founder of the Mormon church, this book attempts to answer the questions that continue to surround Joseph Smith. Was he a genuine prophet, or a gifted fabulist who became enthralled by the products of his imagination and ended up being martyred for them? 24 pages of photos...read more