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Pat and Dick : the Nixons, an intimate portrait of a marriage / Will Swift.

By: Swift, Will, 1947-Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Threshold Editions, 2014Edition: First Threshold Editions hardcover editionDescription: x, 479 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781451676945 (hardcover)Subject(s): Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994 | Nixon, Pat, 1912-1993 | Presidents -- United States -- Biography | Presidents' spouses -- United States -- Biography | Married people -- United States -- BiographyDDC classification: 973.924092/2 | B LOC classification: E856 | .S95 2014
Contents:
Part I. An ambitious young couple -- "Will you think of me sometimes?" -- Going places -- Married, happily -- Love after Pearl Harbor -- Giant slayers -- The faces of America's future -- Crises on the homefront -- Safeguarding the American home -- Part II. Cultural leaders and private citizens -- "Heroes" and "housewives": Dick, Ike, Pat and Mamie -- A turbulent ascent -- Enduring defeat -- Darkness -- Your turn, my turn -- Part III. White House dreams and nightmares -- Adjusting to the White House fortress -- "We had held our own" -- A private marriage in the public spotlight -- Love in the White House -- The zenith -- Falling apart -- Part IV. Affliction and recovery -- Renewal in exile -- A peaceful twilight -- Epilogue.
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Book A J M Library 868-5076
B NIXO (Browse shelf) 1 Not for loan 36656

Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-447) and index.

Part I. An ambitious young couple -- "Will you think of me sometimes?" -- Going places -- Married, happily -- Love after Pearl Harbor -- Giant slayers -- The faces of America's future -- Crises on the homefront -- Safeguarding the American home -- Part II. Cultural leaders and private citizens -- "Heroes" and "housewives": Dick, Ike, Pat and Mamie -- A turbulent ascent -- Enduring defeat -- Darkness -- Your turn, my turn -- Part III. White House dreams and nightmares -- Adjusting to the White House fortress -- "We had held our own" -- A private marriage in the public spotlight -- Love in the White House -- The zenith -- Falling apart -- Part IV. Affliction and recovery -- Renewal in exile -- A peaceful twilight -- Epilogue.

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