Starts:

Tuesday September 17, 2024

    5:30 PM

Ends:

    7:00 PM

*For non-member event reservations: please email pfitzgerald@democraticwoman.org or telephone (202) 232-7363 Ext. 402 (voicemails will also be accepted).*

Heath Hardage Lee’s just published (August 6, 2024, St. Martin’s Press) book The Mysterious Mrs. Nixon: Washington’s Most Private First Lady is the first commercial biography of Pat Nixon in almost 40 years. Ms. Lee will reveal her take on “The Mysterious Mrs. Nixon” in conversation with two other recent First Lady biographers: Rebecca Roberts, author of Untold Power: The Fascinating Rise and Complex Legacy of First Lady Edith Wilson and Julia Sweig, author of Lady Bird Johnson Hiding in Plain Sight. Sweig will conduct a wide-ranging interview with Lee about her just published book. All three biographers will talk about First Ladies, their image in the media, and how the role of FLOTUS remains as Pat Nixon said, “the hardest unpaid job in the world.”

EVENT DETAILS:

• Remarks and Q&A, in-person and via Zoom.
• 5:30 pm bar opens, hors d'oeuvres, 6–7 pm program. 7 pm book signing.
• $10 lecture or Zoom only, $20 members and $25 guests for in-person. Cash bar.

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.

Dr. Julia Sweig is an independent public scholar, award-winning historian, and best-selling biographer of prominent pathbreaking women. Sweig is the author of the highly acclaimed New York Times instant bestseller, Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight, out of which she adapted as creator, host, and executive producer the podcast In Plain Sight, a co-production of Best Case Studios and ABC News Studios. She is the executive producer of The Lady Bird Diaries, a documentary feature based on her book and podcast and the recipient of two 2023 Critics Choice nominations and two 2024 Emmy nominations. Sweig is currently writing a biography for Random House of Dr. Mathilde Krim, a boundary breaking scientist and unsung warrior, and hero, of the AIDS crisis.