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Heath Hardage Lee

Biography

Heath Hardage Lee

Heath Hardage Lee is an award-winning historian, biographer and curator. Heath’s second book, THE LEAGUE OF WIVES, is being developed into a television series. Heath and her work have been featured on "The Today Show," C-Span and on the Smithsonian Channel’s "America’s Hidden Stories." She also writes about history and politics for publications such as Time, The Hill, The Atlantic and White House History Quarterly. She lives in Roanoke, Virginia, with her husband Chris, her children Anne Alston and James and her French bulldog Dolly Parton.

Heath Hardage Lee

Books by Heath Hardage Lee

The Mysterious Mrs. Nixon: The Life and Times of Washington's Most Private First Lady
by Heath Hardage Lee - Biography, History, Nonfiction, Politics

Pat Nixon has long been perceived as enigmatic. She was voted “Most Admired Woman in the World” in 1972 and made Gallup Poll’s top 10 list of most admired women 14 times. She survived the turmoil of the Watergate scandal with her popularity and dignity intact. She was progressive on women’s issues, favoring the Equal Rights Amendment and backing a targeted effort to get more women into high level government jobs. She was pro-choice, supporting women’s reproductive rights publicly even before the landmark Roe v. Wade case in 1973. When asked to define her “signature” First Lady agenda, she defied being put into a box, often saying: “People are my project.” In THE MYSTERIOUS MRS. NIXON, Heath Hardage Lee presents readers with the essential nature of this First Lady, who connected warmly with both ordinary Americans and people from different cultures world-wide.