Mrs. Nixon a novelist imagines a life
(Playaway)

"HDAUDIO."

Issued on Playaway, a dedicated audio media player.

1 AAA battery and head phones required for use, but not supplied by library.

Read by the author.

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: "interchangeable with a Martian," she said. 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, Beattie reconstructs dozens of scenes in an attempt to see the world from Mrs. Nixon's point of view.