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Obstensibly preparing a paper on the ford administration, updike s narrator alfred clayton, a professor at a new hampshire junior college, finds his impressions of the period inextricable from the eve. Memories of the ford administration by john updike goodreads. Memories of the ford administration by john updike. He graduated from harvard college in 1954 and spent a year in oxford, england, at the ruskin school of drawing and fine art. Given that we are a society dedicated to discrediting and especially discrediting institutions, memories of the ford administration can be used by those wish to prove that the pulitzer prize. Get an answer for in memories of the ford administration, by john updike, what. When historian alfred alf clayton is invited by an academic journal to record his impressions of the gerald r. In an imaginary interview that he gave to his character henry bech when memories of the ford administration appeared in 1992, john updike confessed that some time ago i reached the age when.
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