AUDIOBOOK

Mrs. Nixon

Ann Beattie
2.6
(5)
Duration
7h 32m
Year
2011
Language
English

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Pat Nixon remains one of our most mysterious and intriguing public figures, the only modern First Lady who never wrote a memoir. Beattie wonders what it must have been like to be married to such a spectacularly ambitious and catastrophically self-destructive man. Drawing on a wealth of sources Beattie reconstructs dozens of scenes in an attempt to see the world from Mrs. Nixon's point of view.

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"Starred Review. Beattie has created a resplendent paean to the pleasures of the literary imagination, and a riveting and mischievous, revealing and revitalizing portrait of an overlooked woman."
Booklist
"...strikingly original...both timely and unique...B+"
Entertainment Weekly
"Very clever...a meditation on writing..."
New York Journal of Books

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