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Memories of the Ford Administration is a 1992 novel by John Updike published by Knopf. The novel concerns a college professor's attempt to write a reminiscence of the Presidential administration of Gerald Ford while being distracted by events in his personal and professional life.
1 de nov. de 1992 · Nov. 1, 1992. IN a Presidential election year that will be remembered for the way we have blurred the line between the personal and public lives of our candidates, hunted for hidden scandals and...
Sinopsis de MEMORIES OF THE FORD ADMINISTRATION. When a history professor - Alfred Clayton, the hero of John Updike's fifteenth novel - is asked to record his impressions of the Ford Administration, he recalls a turbulent piece of personal history as well: his unfinished book on 19th-century president James Buchanan. Ficha técnica.
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About Memories of the Ford Administration. When historian Alfred “Alf” Clayton is invited by an academic journal to record his impressions of the Gerald R. Ford Administration (1974–77), he recalls not the political events of the time but rather a turbulent period of his own sexual past.
Memories of the Ford Administration: A Novel. John Updike. Penguin, 1993 - Biography & Autobiography - 371 pages. The narrator receives a questionnaire asking for his memories and...
In a decade of sexual liberation, Clayton was facing a doomed marriage and the passionate beginnings of a futile affair with an unattainable Perfect Wife. But one memory begets another: Clayton's...
