Pat Nixon: The Untold Story

Description for PAT NIXON: THE UNTOLD STORY by Julie Nixon Eisenhower: She is instantly recognizable anywhere in the world, but very few people have ever know what goes on behind her elegant and attractive public face. Here, at last, is the real, the untold story of an intensely private woman who has been in the spotlight for nearly forty years, told---as it could only have been---by her daughter Julie. Even had she not become First Lady, Pat Nixon's story would have been fascinating. Born in a miner's shack in Nevada in the dead of winter, she was orphaned before she was out of High School and left with the care of two brothers, the house and the family truck farm. While still in her teens, in the depths of the Depression, she got herself work; first driving a car all the way across the country on her own; then, in New York, where she found a job in the dispensary of a tuberculosis hospital. Fiercely independent, she enjoyed herself enormously in New York but finally there