THE MYSTERIOUS MRS. NIXON

On Sale 8/6/24

A powerful biography of one of the most private first ladies—featuring exclusive access to never-before-published material.

A marvelous biography—a deeply reported, illuminating story of love, ambition, and influence. Jonathan Eig, author of King: A Life and Ali: A Life Heath Lee reveals a strong, complex, intensely human woman. Mrs. Nixon is a mystery no more. Christine Todd Whitman, 50th Governor of New Jersey and best-selling author of It’s My Party Too Everything I thought I knew about Pat Nixon was upended by reading Heath Hardage Lee’s astonishing new biography. Beautiful, steely, and charismatic, Pat Nixon was, in Henry Kissinger’s words, a woman ‘totally without illusions,’ who cloaked her extraordinary ambition in the guise of ‘The Nation’s Ideal Housewife.’ Debby Applegate, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Madam: The Biography of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age