Analysis of Fawn Brodie's Thomas Jefferson 

in 1974, Fawn Brodie was the first TJ biographer to include Jefferson's involvement with Sally Hemings in a book. Hers was a psychoanalytic biography, or psychobiography. The book was criticized or ignored by scholars, but enjoyed by the general public. In this episode, Dr. H gives a psychobiography of Brodie and shows that her torturous childhood made this scandalous biography inevitable. Enjoy!