Memories of the Ford Administration Author: John Updike
	Book Information Publisher: Ballantine Books Book Type: Paperback Members Wishing: 0 Rating: ? ISBN-13: 9780449912119 - ISBN-10: 0449912116 Publication Date: 8/27/1996 Pages: 384

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. But one memory begets another: Clayton's unfinished book on James Buchanan. In John Updike's fifteenth novel, he masterfully alternates between two men, two lives, two American centuries -- one Victorian, the other modern -- shining an irreverent, witty, and sometimes caustic light on the contrasting views of social fictions and sexual politics.