Articoli correlati a Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan
The author uses a unique first-person narrative and comprehensive scholarship to chronicle the life of Ronald Reagan, the statesman and politician
Le informazioni nella sezione "Riassunto" possono far riferimento a edizioni diverse di questo titolo.
Recensione:
"So what did he see that night in the mirror of the Washington Hilton Hotel holding room, just before he turned to face his family and clicked his newly presidential heels? More to the point, what did the mirror see?
"A man just about to turn seventy, one inch taller than six feet, weighing about a hundred and eighty-five pounds stripped, broad as a surfboard and almost as hard, superbly balanced, glowing with health and handsome enough for a second career in the movies. Hair so dense and fine as to amount to a Marvel Comics helmet, slicked with Brylcreem and water to a blue-black sheen, diffusing any hint of gray. Teeth white, gums like a boy's dentists even praise the clarity of his saliva), breath sweet, fingernails naturally shiny, unribbed, lucent as seashells. No fidgety mannerisms; an air of always being comfortable in his clothes. Rather fewer wrinkles, especially about the jowl, than photographers remember seeing a few years ago. Absolutely no makeup--just a clear and sanguineous complexion that blushes the moment he sips alcohol, or fears a woman has overheard one of his ribald jokes."
L'autore:
"A man just about to turn seventy, one inch taller than six feet, weighing about a hundred and eighty-five pounds stripped, broad as a surfboard and almost as hard, superbly balanced, glowing with health and handsome enough for a second career in the movies. Hair so dense and fine as to amount to a Marvel Comics helmet, slicked with Brylcreem and water to a blue-black sheen, diffusing any hint of gray. Teeth white, gums like a boy's dentists even praise the clarity of his saliva), breath sweet, fingernails naturally shiny, unribbed, lucent as seashells. No fidgety mannerisms; an air of always being comfortable in his clothes. Rather fewer wrinkles, especially about the jowl, than photographers remember seeing a few years ago. Absolutely no makeup--just a clear and sanguineous complexion that blushes the moment he sips alcohol, or fears a woman has overheard one of his ribald jokes."
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, Harper's, and 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.
Le informazioni nella sezione "Su questo libro" possono far riferimento a edizioni diverse di questo titolo.
- EditoreRandom House Inc
- Data di pubblicazione1999
- ISBN 10 0394555082
- ISBN 13 9780394555089
- RilegaturaCopertina rigida
- Numero di pagine874
- Valutazione libreria
Compra nuovo
Scopri di più su questo articolo
EUR 10,97
Spese di spedizione:
GRATIS
In U.S.A.
Altre edizioni note dello stesso titolo
I migliori risultati di ricerca su AbeBooks
Foto dell'editore
Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan
Da:
Valutazione libreria
Descrizione libro Hardcover. Condizione: New. Codice articolo 0394555082-11-12561897
Compra nuovo
EUR 10,97
Convertire valuta
Foto dell'editore
Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan
Da:
Valutazione libreria
Descrizione libro Hardcover. Condizione: New. Codice articolo 0394555082-11-14527579
Compra nuovo
EUR 10,97
Convertire valuta
Foto dell'editore
Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan
Da:
Valutazione libreria
Descrizione libro Hardcover. Condizione: New. Codice articolo 0394555082-11-13778275
Compra nuovo
EUR 10,97
Convertire valuta
Foto dell'editore
Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan
Da:
Valutazione libreria
Descrizione libro Hardcover. Condizione: New. Codice articolo DADAX0394555082
Compra nuovo
EUR 10,98
Convertire valuta
Foto dell'editore
Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan
Da:
Valutazione libreria
Descrizione libro Condizione: New. New! This book is in the same immaculate condition as when it was published. Codice articolo 353-0394555082-new
Compra nuovo
EUR 15,93
Convertire valuta
Foto dell'editore
Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan
Editore:
Random House, Inc., New York
(1999)
ISBN 10: 0394555082
ISBN 13: 9780394555089
Nuovo
Rilegato
Prima edizione
Quantità: 1
Da:
Valutazione libreria
Descrizione libro Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. 1st Edition. COMPELLING: RICH: PENETRATING: PERCEPTIVE: NEW Stated First Edition hardcover (orig. September 1999), NEW unclipped mylar-protected jacket showing orig. $35.00 price on right-front inside flyleaf, NEW handsomely illustrated cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & navy-blue linen wrapping spine & extending 1.46" onto front & back panels covered in navy blue paper w/ titles handsomely silver-stamped on spine, IMMACULATE text-block exterior w/ smooth-cut top & bottom edges & cut-page-style deckle side-edging, NEW sewn binding w/ tight signatures & crimson & white-checked cloth bands at spine-caps, IMPECCABLE cream-white end-papers on EXCELLENT rag paper, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed on SUPERB unblemished silk-finish paper * 82 superb b-w illus. throughout the text * Prologue (xi) Epilogue (655) Appendix (673) Acknowledgments (675) Bibliography (679) Notes (683) Illustrations (839) Index (843) * 6.46" x 9.46" x 1.76", 0.78 kg, xx+874 (894) pp. * This book, the only biography ever authorized by a sitting President (yet written w/ complete interpretive freedom) is as revolutionary in method as it is formidable in scholarship. When Ronald Reagan moved into the White House in 1981, Edmund Morris, Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of Theodore Roosevelt, was among his 1st literary guests. Morris developed a fascination for the genial yet inscrutable President &, after Reagan's landslide reelection in 1984, put aside the 2nd volume of his life of Roosevelt to become an observing eye & ear at the White House. Coming & going w/ Reagan's benign approval ("I'm not going to ride up San Juan Hill for you"), Morris found the President to be a man of extraordinary power & mystery. Although the historic early achievements were plain to see (the restoration of American optimism & patriotism, revival 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 2nd term came to grips w/ some of the most fundamental moral issues of the late 20th century (at Bitburg & Bergen-Belsen, at Geneva & Reykjavík, publicly outside the Brandenburg Gate ("Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"), & deep within the mother monastery of the Russian Orthodox Church, Morris realized that he had taken on a subject of epic dimensions. Thus began a long biographical pilgrimage to the heart of Ronald Reagan's mystery, beginning w/ his birth in 1911 in the heart of rural Illinois (where he is still remembered as "Dutch," the dreamy son of an alcoholic father & a fiercely religious mother) & progressing through the way stations of an amazingly varied career: young lifeguard (he saved 77 lives), aspiring writer, ace sportscaster, film star, soldier, union leader, corporate spokesman, Governor, & President. Reagan granted Morris full access to his personal papers, including early autobiographical stories & a handwritten White House diary. The pilgrimage climaxes in 1993, when, in a moment of aching poignancy, Morris escorts his aged & 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." During 13 years of obsessive archival research & interviews w/ Reagan & his family, friends, admirers & enemies (the book's enormous dramatis personae includes such varied characters as Mikhail Gorbachev, Michelangelo Antonioni, Elie Wiesel, Mario Savio, François Mitterrand, Grant Wood, & Zippy the Pinhead), Morris lived a doppelgänger life, studying the young "Dutch," the middle-aged "Ronnie," & the septuagenarian Chief Executive w dispassionate closeness, not to mention alternations of amusement, horror & amazed respect unmatched by any other presidential biographer. Edmund Morris' literary genius & his unique access to his subject here forges a new, compelling & richly rewarding eyewitness style of biography. Codice articolo 010167
Compra nuovo
EUR 15,97
Convertire valuta
Foto dell'editore
Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan
Da:
Valutazione libreria
Descrizione libro Hardcover. Condizione: New. HC. Codice articolo 53MN6P000F1K
Compra nuovo
EUR 14,02
Convertire valuta
Foto dell'editore
Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan
Da:
Valutazione libreria
Descrizione libro Hardcover. Condizione: new. New. Fast Shipping and good customer service. Codice articolo Holz_New_0394555082
Compra nuovo
EUR 21,27
Convertire valuta
Foto dell'editore
DUTCH: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan
Editore:
Random House, Inc., New York, NY, U.S.A.
(1999)
ISBN 10: 0394555082
ISBN 13: 9780394555089
Nuovo
Rilegato
Prima edizione
Quantità: 1
Da:
Valutazione libreria
Descrizione libro Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. First Edition. This book, the only biography ever authorized by a sitting President--yet written with complete interpretative freedom--is as revolutionary in method as it is formidable in scholarship. During thirteen years of obsessive archival research and interviews with Reagan and his family, friends, admirers and enemies, 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. New, unread copy, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. 874 pp. BIOS1/A27/A58. Codice articolo 6715
Compra nuovo
EUR 24,19
Convertire valuta
Foto dell'editore
Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan
Da:
Valutazione libreria
Descrizione libro Hardcover. Condizione: new. New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed. Codice articolo think0394555082
Compra nuovo
EUR 26,48
Convertire valuta