This deeply admiring biography provides a behind-the-scenes look at what may be America’s most inscrutable first lady. In public, she could appear impassive; she was called “plastic.” What better ...

But it is ultimately unfair to its purported subject, Pat Nixon -- the quiet spouse of the only U.S. president to resign from office, who, dated and Barbie-dollish as she seemed to many of us at the ...

On January 20, Melania Trump and Usha Vance will assume the historic roles of first and second ladies of the United States, stepping into positions shaped by centuries of tradition and change. Each ...

Patricia Ryan Nixon was, as far as I have ever been able to tell, pretty much flawless. She was born into extremely modest circumstances in the small town of Ely, Nevada on what was once called “the ...

In the modern era, Patricia Nixon was probably the most private person to ever occupy the White House. Roanoke writer Heath Hardage Lee has put those years into perspective in a keen, brightly written ...

In this dry and frustrating biography, Brennan, a historian at Texas State University (Turning Right in the Sixties), fails to deliver on her promise to "give Pat a voice." Pat Nixon (1912–1993) was ...