WorldCat Linked Data Explorer

Turtle N-Triple JSON-LD RDF/XML HTML Contact Us Home

http://worldcat.org/entity/work/id/17101405

Dutch

The only biography ever authorized by a sitting President--yet written with complete interpretive freedom--Dutch is as revolutionary in method as it is formidable in scholarship. Thirteen years of exhaustive research in the archives of Washington and Hollywood, and thousands of hours of interviews with the President and his family, friends, allies, and enemies, equipped Morris with an unmatched knowledge of one of the twentieth century's greatest leaders. This monumental work offers the most insightful and elegant portrait to date of Ronald Reagan: the young "Dutch," the middle-aged Cold Warrior, and the septuagenarian Chief Executive. Written with imagination, yet always anchored by the weight of research and fact, Dutch stands as both a landmark in the form of biography and an unparalleled historical account of the rise and rule of Ronald Reagan. - Publisher.

Open All Close All

type

about

http://schema.org/about

alternateName

http://schema.org/alternateName

  • "Li gen chuan"
  • "里根传"
  • "Memoir of Ronald Reagan"
  • "Li gen zhuan"
  • "里根傳"
  • "Ligen zhuan"

author

contributor

creator

description

http://schema.org/description

  • "The only biography ever authorized by a sitting President--yet written with complete interpretive freedom--Dutch is as revolutionary in method as it is formidable in scholarship. Thirteen years of exhaustive research in the archives of Washington and Hollywood, and thousands of hours of interviews with the President and his family, friends, allies, and enemies, equipped Morris with an unmatched knowledge of one of the twentieth century's greatest leaders. This monumental work offers the most insightful and elegant portrait to date of Ronald Reagan: the young "Dutch," the middle-aged Cold Warrior, and the septuagenarian Chief Executive. Written with imagination, yet always anchored by the weight of research and fact, Dutch stands as both a landmark in the form of biography and an unparalleled historical account of the rise and rule of Ronald Reagan. - Publisher."@en
  • "A memoir of Ronald Reagan."@en
  • "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. 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 "Ronnie," 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. This almost Boswellian closeness led to a unique literary method 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. "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.""
  • "The author uses a unique first-person narrative and comprehensive scholarship to chronicle the life of Ronald Reagan, the statesman and politician."@en
  • "A biography of Ronald Reagan, tracing his life from his birth in 1911 in rural Illinois, and discussing his acting career, his stint in the armed forces, his marriages, and his political achievements."@en

genre

http://schema.org/genre

  • "Biography"
  • "Biography"@en
  • "Publicystyka amerykańska"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Biografieën (vorm)"
  • "Biographie (Descripteur de forme)"
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Electronic books"@en

name

http://schema.org/name

  • "荷兰人 : 里根传"
  • "Helanren : Ligen zhuan"
  • "He lan ren"
  • "荷兰人"
  • "Dutch"@en
  • "荷蘭人 里根傳"
  • "Dutch a memoir of Ronald Reagan"@en
  • "Dutch a memoir of Ronald Reagan"
  • "Dutch : a memoir of Ronald Regan"
  • "Dutch A Memoir of Ronald Reagan"@en
  • "Dutch; a memoir of Ronald Reagan"@en
  • "Dutch : a memoir of Ronald Reagan"
  • "Dutch : a memoir of Ronald Reagan"@en
  • "Helan ren Ligen zhuan"
  • "He lan ren : Li gen chuan"

workExample