Memories of the Ford Administration

John Updike
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The narrator receives a questionnaire asking for his memories and impressions of Gerald Ford's presidential administration. But he finds himself straying away from politics in the Seventies towards sex, adultery, guilt, and to his unfinished biography of the 19th-century President Buchanan.
Genres: FictionNovelsLiteratureHistorical FictionLiterary FictionAmericanPolitics20th Century
384 Pages

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