Spy Review: Ann Beattie’s Mrs. Nixon by David Bruce Smith

Somehow, in the swirl of history—and the re-telling of it—the presence of Pat Nixon has been diluted to an absence. This is because she preferred anonymity; of all the First Ladies in the past four decades, only she declined to write an autobiography. Ann Beattie’s Mrs. Nixon: A Novelist Imagines a Life, is biographical—in theory—but her essence is not fully permeated. Instead, the … [Read More...]