Memories of the Ford Administration
By John Updike
1992
First Published
3.29
Average Rating
397
Number of 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 to his unfinished biography of the 19th-century President Buchanan.
Avg Rating
3.29
Number of Ratings
548
5 STARS
13%
4 STARS
30%
3 STARS
37%
2 STARS
15%
1 STARS
6%
goodreads
Author
John Updike
Author · 79 books
John Hoyer Updike was an American writer. Updike's most famous work is his Rabbit series (Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit Is Rich; Rabbit At Rest; and Rabbit Remembered). Rabbit is Rich and Rabbit at Rest both won Pulitzer Prizes for Updike. Describing his subject as "the American small town, Protestant middle class," Updike is well known for his careful craftsmanship and prolific writing, having published 22 novels and more than a dozen short story collections as well as poetry, literary criticism and children's books. Hundreds of his stories, reviews, and poems have appeared in The New Yorker since the 1950s. His works often explore sex, faith, and death, and their inter-relationships. He died of lung cancer at age 76.
