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Dewey Decimal. 813/.54 20. LC Class. PS3571.P4 M45 1992b. 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.
- John Updike
- 1992
Jan 1, 2001 · John Updike. 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. 384 pages, Paperback.
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"Memories of the Ford Administration" begins when, in 1992, a historical organization called the Northern New England Association of American Historians asks Professor Alfred Clayton (named after Alf Landon, the 1936 Republican Presidential candidate) to provide "requested memories and impressions of he presidential Administration of Gerald R. Ford (1974-1977)."
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- John Updike
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.
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Books. 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 impressions of Gerald Ford's presidential administration. But he finds himself straying away from politics in the Seventies towards sex, adultery, guilt, and ...
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. Alf’s highly idiosyncratic contribution to Retrospect ...
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL. When junior college professor Alfred Clayton is asked to record his impressions of the Ford Administration, he recalls a turbulent piece of personal history as well. 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.
