#1373 - Mark Feeney

Mark Feeney is an author and arts writer for The Boston Globe for over four decades. He is the author of "Nixon at the Movies" which takes a new and often revelatory approach to looking at Nixon's career—and Hollywood's. Marks second book is "Nixon and the Silver Screen", Nixon viewed more movies while in office than any other president, and Feeney argues that Nixon’s story, both in politics and in his personal life, is nothing if not quintessentially American. Bearing in mind the events that shaped his presidency from 1969 to 1974, Feeney sees aspects of Nixon’s character—and the nation’s—refracted and reimagined in the more than 500 films Nixon watched during his tenure in the White House.