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35.00 |
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.M66 1999 |
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E 877 .M66 1999 |
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| Personal name |
Morris, Edmund. |
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| Title |
Dutch : |
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a memoir of Ronald Reagan / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
Edmund Morris. |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT |
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1st ed. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
New York : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Random House, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
c1999. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xx, 874 p. : |
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ill. ; |
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25 cm. |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
Contains genuine and fictional characters. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [679]-681) and index. |
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The Land of Lost Things -- The Rainbow on the Roof -- A Dark Form Half Hidden in the Snow -- A World Elsewhere -- Chimes at Midnight -- Air and Water -- The Indifferent Figure in the Sand: A Review -- Long Blue Shadows -- Inside Story -- Love Is on the Air -- On the Beach with Ronnie and Jane -- A Lonely Impulse of Delight -- The End of the Beginning -- Celluloid Commandos -- The Regeneration of the World -- Star Power: A Dialogue -- Down the Divide: Four Short Scenarios -- Red or Palest Pink: A Letter -- This Dismal Wilderness -- Intermission -- And Then Along Came Nancy -- The Unexplored Mystery of Ploughed Ground -- Remember Old Ma Reagan: A Studio Interview, 1954 -- Ladies and Gentlemen of the California Fertilizer Association: A Speech -- Dark Days -- Reagan Country -- A Sixty-Year-Old Smiling Public Man -- The Ripple Effect -- I, Ronald Wilson Reagan -- Back into the Iron Vest -- Huge Cloudy Symbols of a High Romance -- Physicians of Memory -- Almost Air Force One -- One on One -- Explosions -- The Beginning of the End -- Album Leaves, 1987-1988 -- The Shining City. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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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. |
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Coming and going with Reagan's benign approval ("I'm not going to charge up San Juan Hill for you"), Morris found the President to be a man of extraordinary power and mystery. Although the historic early achievements were plain to see--the restoration of American optimism and patriotism, a repowering of the national economy, a massive arms buildup deliberately forcing the "Evil Empire" of Soviet Communism to come to terms--nobody, let alone Reagan himself, could explain how he succeeded in shaping events to his will. And when Reagan's second term came to grips with some of the most fundamental moral issues of the late twentieth century--at Bitburg and Bergen-Belsen, at Geneva and Reykjavik, publicly outside the Brandenburg Gate ("Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"), and deep within the mother monastery of the Russian Orthodox Church, Morris realized that he had taken on a subject of epic dimensions. |
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Thus began a long biographical pilgrimage to the heart of Ronald Reagan's mystery, beginning with his birth in 1911 in the depths of rural Illinois (where he is still remembered as "Dutch," the dreamy son of an alcoholic father and a fiercely religious mother) and progressing through the way stations of an amazingly varied career: young lifeguard (he saved seventy-seven lives), aspiring writer, ace sportscaster, film star, soldier, union leader, corporate spokesman, Governor, and President. Reagan granted Morris full access to his personal papers, including early autobiographical stories and a handwritten White House diary. |
| 520 8# - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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The pilgrimage climaxes in 1993, when, in a moment of aching poignancy, Morris escorts his aged and failing subject back up the stairs of his birthplace. "An odd, Dantesque reversal of roles had occurred, as if I were now the leader rather than the led." |
| 520 8# - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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During thirteen years of obsessive archival research and interviews with Reagan and his family, friends, admirers and enemies (the book's enormous dramatis personae includes such varied characters as Mikhail Gorbachev, Michelangelo Antonioni, Elie Wiesel, Mario Savio, Francois Mitterrand, Grant Wood, and Zippy the Pinhead), Morris lived what amounted to a doppelganger life, studying the young "Dutch," the middle-aged Cold Warrior, and the septuagenarian Chief Executive with a closeness and dispassion. not to mention alternations of amusement, horror, and amazed respect, unmatched by any other presidential biographer. |
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This unique relationship led to a literary technique whereby, in the earlier chapters of Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan. Morris's biographical mind becomes in effect another character in the narrative, recording long-ago events with the same eyewitness vividness (and absolute documentary fidelity) with which the author later describes the great dramas of Reagan's presidency, and the tragedy of a noble life now darkened by dementia. |
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"I quite understand," the author has remarked, "that readers will have to adjust, at first, to what amounts to a new biographical style. But the revelations of this style, which derive directly from Ronald Reagan's own way of looking at his life, are I think rewarding enough to convince them that one of the most interesting characters in recent American history looms here like a colossus." |
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Reagan, Ronald. |
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Reagan, Ronald |
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Edmund Morris was born in Kenya and educated at the Prince of Wales School, Nairobi, and Rhodes University, Grahamstown South Africa. He worked as an advertising copywriter in London before emigrating to the United States in 1968. His biography The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt won the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award in 1980. In 1985 he was appointed Ronald Reagan's authorized biographer. He has written extensively on travel and the arts for such publications as The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Harper's, and is a music critic for The Washington Post. The second volume of his Roosevelt biography, Theodore Rex, is currently under way, and will be followed by a third. Edmund Morris lives in New York and Washington, D.C., with his wife and fellow biographer, Sylvia Jukes Morris. |
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