Mrs. Nixon : a novelist imagines a life / Ann Beattie.
| Author/creator | Beattie, Ann |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | 1st Scribner hardcover ed. |
| Publication Info | New York : Scribner, 2011. |
| Description | 282 pages ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Variant title | Missus Nixon |
| Abstract | Pat Nixon remains one of our most mysterious and intriguing public figures, the only modern first lady who never wrote a memoir. Beattie, like many of her generation, dismissed Richard Nixon's wife as "interchangeable with a Martian." But decades later, she 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 from Life magazine to accounts by Nixon's daughter, and his doctor, to The Haldeman Diaries and Jonathan Schell's The Time of Illusion, Beattie reconstructs dozens of scenes in an attempt to see the world from Mrs. Nixon's point of view. Like Stephen King's On Writing, this fascination and intimate account offers readers an unprecedented glimpse into the imagination of a writer. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-282). |
| ISBN | 9781439168714 |
| ISBN | 1439168717 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | PS3552.E177 M77 2011 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |