Richard Nixon and the film industry arrived in Southern California in the same year, 1913. In Nixon and the Silver Screen, Mark Feeney offers a new and often revelatory way of thinking about one of our most controversial presidents: by looking not just at Nixon's careerâbut Hollywood's. Nixon viewed more movies while in office than any other president, and Feeney argues that Nixonâs 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 Nixonâs characterâand the nationâsârefracted and reimagined in the more than 500 films Nixon watched during his tenure in the White House. The verdict? Nixonâs legacy, for better or worse, is forever representative of the âSilver Ageâ in Hollywood, shaping and being shaped by that flickering silver screen.