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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

In America’s collective consciousness, 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. The real Pat Nixon, however, bore little resemblance to the woman so often described as elusive, mysterious and “plastic” in the press. When asked to define her “signature” First Lady agenda, she defied being put into a box. In THE MYSTERIOUS MRS. NIXON, Heath Hardage Lee presents readers with the essential nature of this First Lady --- an empathetic, adventurous, self-made woman who wanted no power or influence, but who connected warmly with both ordinary Americans and people from different cultures she encountered world-wide.