New York: Simon & Schuster BOOK: Light Bleed Through of Lettering From Dust Jacket Onto Front Board (With No Obvious Cause; Publication/Printing?); Corners, Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Lightly Soiled; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: Repaired; Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age, Sun Exposure to Spine; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. BOOK NUMBER: 05912445. DESIGNED BY: Eve Metz. PHOTO RESEARCH BY: Vincent Virga. JACKET PHOTOGRAPH BY: Diana Walker/Gamma-Liaison. JACKET DESIGN: Robert Anthony Inc. SYNOPSIS: There were First Ladies, and then there was Nancy Reagan--perhaps the most powerful and influential woman in the history of the United States. Kitty Kelley, author of the best-selling His Way: The Unauthorized Biography of Frank Sinatra, has fashioned a portrait worthy of the lady and her singular position. Nancy Reagan is a shrewd, psychologically perceptive and meticulously researched attempt to truly understand the complex woman who stood--for eight years--at the power center of American life. Through over 1,000 interviews collected during four years of exhaustive research and reporting, Kitty Kelley has succeeded in unmasking Nancy Reagan as she is, her husband's truest ally. Kelley reveals Nancy Reagan as a superb public performer; a vain, materialistic social climber; a bitter foe and formidable strategist--an American phenomenon. Rarely has a writer captured her subject so authoritatively. Rarely has the American public had so much to learn about someone we thought we knew so well. Nancy Reagan is a story that takes place in the highest reaches of public life--from the world of the movies to Capitol Hill. But it begins with a lonely young girl, a daughter who learned the power of fantasy and self-creation from the mother who invented herself. Kitty Kelley shows how this lesson shaped Nancy--as a Smith College coed; as a Hollywood starlet (who pursued Ronald Reagan with a determination that bordered on obsession); as an ambitious governor's wife who reigned over California for eight years; and finally as the First Lady of the land. Kelley shows that Nancy was the first person to see Ronald Reagan for what he could become and explains how this clever, ambitious woman went on to create the two most spectacular careers in modern politics: her husband's and her own. Nancy Reagan is Kitty Kelley's most important, most engrossing--and most revelatory--book yet. Kitty Kelley's superb reporting made His Way: The Unauthorized Biography of Frank Sinatra the bestselling biography in the history of publishing. Kelley, formerly of the Washington Post, is also the author of Jackie Oh! and Elizabeth Taylor: The Last Star, both national bestsellers. In addition to her books, Kitty Kelley has written for The New York Times, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Ladies' Home Journal, Good Housekeeping, People magazine, McCall's, Cosmopolitan, and Paris Metro. She has received numerous awards, including the 1987 Outstanding Author award from the American Society of Journalists and Authors "for her courageous writing on popular culture.". First Edition 4th Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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Bookseller: Fully Booked (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 003742
Title: Nancy Reagan The Unauthorized Biography
Author: Kelley, Kitty
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Edition: First Edition 4th Printing
ISBN 10: 067164646X
ISBN 13: 9780671646462
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Place of Publication: New York
This edition first published: 1991
Keywords: Biography,Political Figures
Bookseller catalogs: Biography - Political Figures;
Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

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