Why read The Lonely Lady of San Clemente?

Book cover of The Lonely Lady of San Clemente: The Story of Pat Nixon

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235 pages. Illustrated.

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1 author picked The Lonely Lady of San Clemente as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Mary C. Brennan

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While David offers some interesting and important insights about the real Pat – her humor, her grit, and her kindness, the overall picture of Pat as victim of her own life can make the book off-putting. The more I learned about Pat from my research, the less I trusted some of David’s more saccharine statements about her life. Taken with a grain of salt, however, the book offers some interesting stories I did not find elsewhere.

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