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...Cannon has earned glowing reviews for President Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime, a 948-page opus that charts its subject's ! political journey from Sacramento to Washington. So why haven't you heard more about it? That's simple: the book was released barely a week before Kitty Kelley's hit-and-run job on Nancy Reagan. Cannon is upset that Simon & Schuster, publisher of both biographies, didn't live up to a verbal agreement to keep the release of the Kelley book separate from his own tome. After numerous leaks about the Kelley book's contents, the company...
...controversy over the Palm Beach coverage blew up just one week after the Times had published a front-page Sunday piece by Maureen Dowd on Kitty Kelley's biography of Nancy Reagan. In its rush to get the book's allegations into print, the paper made little attempt to substantiate Kelley's more purple passages or to question her notions of fact gathering...
...First Lady really a witch? And has author Kitty Kelley gone...
...literary phenomenon, there is less to Nancy Reagan than meets the eye. Kitty Kelley is hardly the only slash-and-burn chronicler currently at work. Her smartest move has been to choose living victims for her killer bios; speaking ill of the dead (Albert Goldman on Elvis and John Lennon, Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington on Pablo Picasso) is profitable but a tad less sensational. And the instant renown achieved by Kelley's Nancy does not really signal the end of civilization as we have known it. Good, balanced, substantial biographies about controversial figures continue to appear and win notice. Last week...
That tide is still running and with it the mistaken notion that weaknesses not only constitute part of human nature but absolutely define it. Suetonius would be amazed at the likes of Kelley and at the prospect of biography as target shooting. When the Roman noted in passing that Augustus had been accused of effeminacy and of softening the hair on his legs by singeing them with red-hot walnut shells, the information was presented as simply another part of a complex mosaic of personality. Nothing to get excited about or to stop the presses for. Nancy Reagan should have...