AN ORDINARY MAN: The Surprising Life and Historic Presidency of Gerald R. Ford

Drawing on hundreds of interviews and documents, Smith re-creates Ford's hardscrabble childhood in Michigan, his early antiestablishment politics, and his lifelong love affair with the former Betty Bloomer, whose impact on American culture he predicted would outrank his own. As president, he guided the nation through its worst constitutional crisis since the Civil War; and more. 16 pages of photos.