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Nancy Reagan: The Unauthorized Biography

by Kitty Kelley · 1991

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A shocking portrait of the 1980s, America, and the woman whose position helped shape the values and policies of the Reagan administration. Through over 1,000 interviews collected during four years of exhaustive research and reporting, Kelley reveals Nancy Reagan as a superb public performer, a vain, materialistic social climber, a bitter foe and formidable strategist—an American phenomenon. Photographs.

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biographybiographyMore like thisLess of thispoliticspoliticsMore like thisLess of thishistoryhistoryMore like thisLess of this
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politicspoliticsMore like thisLess of thispresidentspresidentsMore like thisLess of this
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1990s1990sMore like thisLess of thisUSAUSAMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
epic · 688 pages

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