Fawn M. Brodie — American Author born on September 15, 1915, died on January 10, 1981

Fawn McKay Brodie was a biographer and one of the first female professors of history at UCLA, who is best known for Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History, a work of psychobiography, and No Man Knows My History, an early and still influential non-hagiographic biography of Joseph Smith, the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement... (wikipedia)

A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.
Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with suspense.
Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.