{"product_id":"9781439168738","title":"Mrs. Nixon: A Novelist Imagines a Life","description":"\u003cb\u003eDazzlingly original, Ann Beattie’s \u003ci\u003eMrs. Nixon \u003c\/i\u003eis a riveting exploration of an elusive American icon and of the fiction writer’s art.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePat 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on a wealth of sources from \u003ci\u003eLife \u003c\/i\u003emagazine to accounts by Nixon’s daughter and his doctor to \u003ci\u003eThe Haldeman Diaries \u003c\/i\u003eand Jonathan Schell’s \u003ci\u003eThe Time of Illusion, \u003c\/i\u003eBeattie reconstructs dozens of scenes in an attempt to see the world from Mrs. Nixon’s point of view. Like Stephen King’s \u003ci\u003eOn Writing, \u003c\/i\u003ethis fascinating and intimate account offers readers a rare glimpse into the imagination of a writer. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBeattie, whose fiction \u003ci\u003eVanity Fair \u003c\/i\u003ecalls “irony-laced reports from the front line of the baby boomers’ war with themselves,” packs insight and humor into her examination of the First Couple with whom boomers came of age. \u003ci\u003eMrs. Nixon \u003c\/i\u003eis a startlingly compelling and revelatory work.","brand":"Scribner","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47139953475824,"sku":"9781439168738","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781439168738_p0.jpg?v=1763756689","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781439168738","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}