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 ...

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 ...

Biographer Lee (The League of Wives) paints an intriguingly sympathetic portrait of first lady Pat Nixon (1912–1993), framing her as an unfairly maligned figure (she was famously nicknamed “Plastic ...

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 ...

Thelma Ryan was only 13, a freshman at Excelsior Union High School in Artesia, Calif., when her mother Kate, a German immigrant and Christian Scientist from South Dakota, died from liver cancer at 45.

M any of the attendees at the Literary Society of the Desert experienced the years of the Richard Nixon presidency first-hand. So, when Heath Hardage Lee, author of The Mysterious ...