Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald ReaganRandom House Publishing Group, 2011 M10 19 - 912 pages This book, the only biography ever authorized by a sitting President--yet written with complete interpretive freedom--is as revolutionary in method as it is formidable in scholarship. When Ronald Reagan moved into the White House in 1981, one of his first literary guests was Edmund Morris, the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of Theodore Roosevelt. Morris developed a fascination for the genial yet inscrutable President and, after Reagan's landslide reelection in 1984, put aside the second volume of his life of Roosevelt to become an observing eye and ear at the White House. |
Contents
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A World Elsewhere | 44 |
Chimes at Midnight | 64 |
Air and Water | 76 |
7 | 92 |
Long Blue Shadows | 108 |
Inside Story | 133 |
Love Is on the | 144 |
Reagan Country | 345 |
A SixtyYearOld Smiling Public Man | 366 |
The Ripple Effect | 386 |
Back into the Iron Vest | 434 |
Huge Cloudy Symbols of a High Romance | 469 |
Physicians of Memory | 508 |
Almost Air Force One | 540 |
One on One | 550 |
On the Beach with Ronnie and Jane | 167 |
Celluloid Commandos | 196 |
The Regeneration of the World | 218 |
A Dialogue | 235 |
Four Short Scenarios | 249 |
A Letter | 260 |
And Then Along Came Nancy | 277 |
The Unexplored Mystery of Ploughed Ground | 284 |
A Studio Interview 1954 | 298 |
Dark Days | 311 |
Explosions | 576 |
The Beginning of the End | 589 |
Album Leaves 19871988 | 617 |
The Shining City | 641 |
Epilogue | 655 |
Appendix | 673 |
Bibliography | 679 |
133 | 775 |
Illustrations | 839 |