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Edmund Morris, Pulitzer-prizewinning biographer of Theodore Roosevelt, had never been so close to the actual events of power. Every sound, every gesture, every word was caught and cataloged in his quick mind. As the final seconds before broadcast time ticked off, Morris saw a sudden movement beneath the President...
The unwritten book has already achieved a fame of sorts. Morris' reported $3 million advance is a record for such a project, though it will be spread out over eleven years. And the arrangement giving Morris access to most of the inner workings of the White House and a monthly...
Morris went on to Geneva with Reagan, deliberately taking a hotel room far from the presidential party so he could sort out his thoughts in cool independence. But he still had the rare privilege of drifting in and out of the summit events. Morris delighted in what he calls "the...
Morris could do more than just write a biography. He could reshape the study of leadership and the presidency. "I want to do a detailed, literary work on personality as power," says Morris. He has already spent time in Hollywood talking with those who knew and worked with Reagan. Soon...
"The enormous extent of the President's memory impresses me," says Morris. On almost any subject from the past half-century that Morris has raised, Reagan has had an observation based on firsthand experience: the Depression, the Smoot-Hawley Tariff, the rise of fascism, name it. Nothing escapes Morris' scrutiny...