# Memories of the Ford Administration

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- Book: [Memories of the Ford Administration](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-updike/memories-of-the-ford-administration) ([Memories of the Ford Administration.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-updike/memories-of-the-ford-administration.md))
- Authors: [John Updike](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-updike)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4191-244-8
- Published: 2007-02-22
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

When a history professor - Alfred Clayton, the hero of John Updike's fifteenth novel - is asked to record his impressions of the Ford Administration, he recalls a turbulent piece of personal history as well: his unfinished book on 19th-century president James Buchanan.