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Pat Nixon may be the least understood of modern first ladies. Although public opinion polls rated her one of our nation's most admired women, few Americans really knew much about her. This first scholarly biography of Thelma Ryan Nixon--the first biography in thirty-five years and the first to access her papers--goes further than any other book to show readers the real Pat Nixon. Lester David's The Lonely Lady of San Clemente painted her as a ...

This first scholarly biography of Thelma Ryan Nixon—the first biography in thirty-five years and the first to access her papers—goes further than any other book to show readers the real Pat Nixon. Mary Brennan moves beyond the over simplified appraisals of this neglected first lady to provide a powerful study of a complex and fascinating presidential spouse.

Ideologically divided and disorganized in 1960, the conservative wing of the Republican Party appeared to many to be virtually obsolete. However, over the course of that decade, the Right reinvented itself and gained control of the party. Mary Brennan describes how conservative Americans from a variety of backgrounds joined forces to make their voices heard.