Ebook {Epub PDF} Pat and Dick by Will Swift

Janu: Author Dr. Will Swift discusses the marriage of President and First Lady Pat Nixon at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library. March 5, Pat and Dick author Will Swift was interviewed by Oline Eaton, host of New Books in Biography Febru: Pat and Dick author Will Swift appeared on MSNBC's The Cycle Janu: Pat and Dick author Will Swift appeared on MSNBC's Morning Joe. PAT AND DICK: THE NIXONS, AN INTIMATE PORTRAIT OF A MARRIAGE. By Will Swift. Written by a leading presidential biographer who "narrates with grace and style" (Kirkus Reviews), this is a probing, insightful, and nuanced study of the partnership between Richard and Pat Nixon throughout their turbulent fifty-three-year marriage.A sweeping portrait of the long-misunderstood marriage of America.

In Pat and Dick, biographer Will Swift brings his years of experience as a historian and marital therapist to this unique examination of a long-misunderstood marriage. Nixon the man was enormously complicated: brilliant, insecure, sometimes coldly calculating, and capable of surprising affection with his wife. Much less is known about Pat. Swift gets this right: "One reason that the Nixons are fascinating is that they embody marital ambivalence — that is, Pat and Dick were drawn to certain parts of each other's characters even. Find many great new used options and get the best deals for Pat and Dick An Intimate Portrait of a Marriage Will Swift (Hardcover, ) at the best online prices at eBay!

In Pat and Dick the personal and political merge in a narrative that makes Swift's book one of the must-read biographies of the age." – Carl Rollyson, author of Amy Lowell Anew: A Biography "All marriages are mysterious and few were more so, or suffered more stress, than the fifty-plus-year union of Richard Nixon and Thelma (Pat) Ryan. "Will Swift, a superb researcher and an insightful psychologist, has written the first dual biography of Pat and Dick Nixon. This intriguingly fresh and lucid portrait of these two epochal figures will be the standard reference work for many years.". In Pat and Dick, biographer Will Swift brings his years of experience as a historian and as a marital therapist to this unique examination of a long-misunderstood marriage. Nixon the man was enormously complicated: brilliant, insecure, sometimes coldly calculating, and capable of surprising affection with his wife.