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 careerтАФbut Hollywood's. Nixon viewed more movies while in office than any other president, and Feeney argues that NixonтАЩs 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 NixonтАЩs characterтАФand the nationтАЩsтАФrefracted and reimagined in the more than 500 films Nixon watched during his tenure in the White House. The verdict? NixonтАЩs legacy, for better or worse, is forever representative of the тАЬSilver AgeтАЭ in Hollywood, shaping and being shaped by that flickering silver screen.