Ebook: Pat and Dick: the Nixons, an intimate portrait of a marriage
Author: Nixon Pat, Nixon Richard Milhous, Swift Will
- Tags: Ambition, Devotion, History, Letters--Private, Married people, Married people--United States, Presidents, Presidents' spouses, Presidents' spouses--United States, Presidents--United States, Public figures--Controversial, Scandals, Biography, Biographies, Nixon Richard M. -- (Richard Milhous) -- 1913-1994, Nixon Pat -- 1912-1993, Presidents -- United States -- Biography, Presidents' spouses -- United States -- Biography, Married people -- United States -- Biography, Public figures -- Controversial, Letters -- Pr
- Year: 2014
- Publisher: Threshold Editions
- City: United States;Washington;District of Columbia
- Edition: First Threshold hardcover edition
- Language: English
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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.;A study of the partnership between the thirty-seventh President and his wife argues that the couple endured political and intimate disappointments during their fifty-three-year marriage but ultimately shared genuine affection.
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