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Thus Memories of the Ford Administration does not quite cohere, for each layer has its own color, a little too independent of the others, and the novel is rather like a description of Buchanan’s ...
3. Nov. 1992 · Clayton also is writing a personal recollection of his chaotic sexual and family situation during the Gerald Ford administration—this makes up the narration here—and thus Updike can move freely inside two ideas: that the past is no more knowable than the confusing present, and that things—even if they do it at wrenching cost—bump on, work out. Clayton has left his wife and family of ...
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. 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.
"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)." Clayton is a professor at a ...
Memories of the Ford Administration John Updike. Knopf Publishing Group, $23 (371pp) ISBN 978-0-679-41681-4. Irony, whimsy, supple prose, pungent imagery, penetrating social observation and a ...
27. Aug. 1996 · Memories of the Ford Administration: A Novel. Paperback – August 27, 1996. by John Updike (Author) 3.9 36 ratings. See all formats and editions. 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 ...
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