Ronnie & Nancy; Their Path to the White House 1911 to 1980

Colacello, Bob

ISBN 10: 044653272X / ISBN 13: 9780446532723

Edité par Warner Books, New York, 2004

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vii, [3], 598 pages. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Signed by the author on the title page. A first volume of a definitive portrait based on the author's unique access to the Reagan family and their friends shares previously undisclosed information about the marriage between Ronald and Nancy, Ronald Reagan's modest childhood in rural Illinois, and Nancy Reagan's carefully cultivated social connections. Bob Colacello (born 1947) is an American writer. Born in Bensonhurst, New York, and raised in Plainview, Long Island, he graduated from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in 1969, and also has an MFA degree in film criticism from Columbia University Graduate School of the Arts. After his tenure with Interview, Colacello began writing for Vanity Fair magazine, and has been a regular contributor since, writing extended profiles on a wide range of public personalities, including Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles, Balthus, Rudolf Nureyev, Liza Minnelli, Estée Lauder, Doris Duke, and Naomi Campbell. Colacello has also established himself as one of the most prolific biographical writers in the United States. He is the author of Ronnie and Nancy: Their Path to the White House, 1911-1980, about the social and political rise of Ronald Reagan and his wife Nancy Reagan. His memoir of working with Andy Warhol in the 1970s and early 1980s, titled Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up, was called the "best-written and the most killingly observed" book on the subject by The New York Times. Derived from a Publishers Weekly article: This joint biography by Vanity Fair contributor Colacello opens not with a power scene in the White House of the new elected President Reagan, but with a glittering dinner at Le Cirque. Colacello's chief interest is family and the Reagans' interactions with the world's elites: the aging Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Frank Sinatra, Malcolm Forbes, and Lee and Walter Annenberg, among many others. Colacello also focuses on the Reagans' relationships with their children, and some of these details are quite interesting. On the political side, Colacello provides a chronicle of events, almost always adopting Nancy Reagan's point of view vis-à-vis her husband's assistants, associates, allies and enemies (the author had Nancy's cooperation).

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Ronnie & Nancy; Their Path to the White House 1911 to 1980
• Éditeur: Warner Books, New York
• Date de parution: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 044653272X
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780446532723
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Illustrateur: Slim Aarons (Jacket Photograph)
• Édition: First Printing [Stated].
• État de l'article: Very good
• État de la jaquette: Very good
• Signé: Signé par l'auteur
• Catalogues du vendeur:
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Synopsis

Ronnie and Nancy: he was born in modest circumstances in rural Illinois; she grew up in an enclave of Chicago in an atmosphere of privilege and high expectation. He would learn early on the value of befriending the monied and powerful...she would become the pet project of her ex-actress mother, thrust repeatedly into Hollywood circles and taught over and over again the value of connections. Ronald Reagan and Nancy Davis couldn't have been more unlike in their origins - or more alike in their awareness of the value that can be extracted from relationships. Over the course of decades they elevated the social to an art form. Who better to chronicle that journey from obscurity to Hollywood's most talked about couple to ultimate political game players than Vanity Fair writer and ex-Interview Magazine's editor-in-chief Bob Colacello. In researching this book, which has been six years in the writing, Colacello has spent thousands of hours interviewing Nancy Regan as well as hundreds of Reagan intimates. This is a monumental work.

À propos de l?auteur

Bob Colacello is a respected magazine hournalist who has enjoyed a long friendship with the Reagans. He has worked for all the major American magazines, including Andy Warhol's Interview Magazine and he still works as a writer and consulting editor at Vanity Fair.