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Pat Nixon remains one in our most incomprehensible and intriguing public figures, the one modern First Woman who never wrote a memoir. Beattie, like many of her era, dismissed Richard Nixon's partner: "interchangeable with a Martian," she said. Ages later, she wonders what it must have been prefer to be married to such a spectacularly ambitious and catastrophically self-destructive man. Sketching on an abundance of sources, Beattie reconstructs dozens of scenes in an attempt to start to see the world from Mrs. Nixon's perspective. Beattie packs understanding and humor into her examination of the First Couple with whom seniors came of age. Mrs. Nixon is a startlingly convincing and revelatory work.
