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Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan

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{{italic title}}Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan is a 1999 biography with fictional elements by Edmund Morris about Ronald Reagan, the 40th President of the United States. There is much controversy about the book, cited by the Amazon.com editorial staff as "one of the most unusual and critically scrutinized biographies ever written, because of the fictional characters in display."^[1] Debate exists as to whether Dutch should even be referred to as a biography at all. It was published by Random House and edited by executive editor Robert Loomis.^[2]

Background

After the unprecedented success of his Pulitzer Prize-winning The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, Morris was given the greenlight by the Reagan Administration to write the first authorized biography of a sitting president, granting him behind-the-scenes access never before given to a writer at The White House. Apparently, the privileges were of little use: Morris claimed to have learned little from his conversations with Reagan and White House staff or even from the President's own private diary.

Morris eventually decided to scrap writing a straight biography and turn his piece into a faux historical memoir about the President told from the viewpoint of a semi-fictional peer from the same town as Ronald Reagan: Edmund Morris himself. The person comes from the same town as and continually encounters and later keeps track of Reagan. The first time the fictional narrator sees him is at a 1926 football game in Dixon, Illinois. He asks a friend who the fellow running down the field "with extraordinary grace" is, and he is informed that it is "Dutch" Reagan.

The biography has caused confusion in that it contains a few characters who never existed and scenes in which they interact with real people. Morris goes so far as to include misleading endnotes about such imaginary characters so that he can confuse his reading audience. Elsewhere, scenes are dramatized or completely made up.{{citation needed|date=September 2013}}

Regarding Reagan, Morris claimed, "Nobody around him understood him. I, every person I interviewed, almost without exception, eventually would say, 'You know, I could never really figure him out.'"^[3]

References

1. ^{{cite web|author=Dutch : A Memoir of Ronald Reagan |url=https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000065V2W |title=Dutch : A Memoir of Ronald Reagan: Edmund Morris: Amazon.com: Books |publisher=Amazon.com |date= |accessdate=2013-03-05}}
2. ^{{cite journal | title = Where the written word reigns | journal = Duke Magazine | volume = 93 | issue = 3 | date = May–June 2007 | url = http://www.dukemagazine.duke.edu/dukemag/issues/050607/depupd.html | accessdate = 2007-11-13 | deadurl = yes | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20071009171739/http://www.dukemagazine.duke.edu/dukemag/issues/050607/depupd.html | archivedate = 2007-10-09 | df = }}
3. ^Stahl, Lesley (interviewer) (June 9, 2004) Morris: "Reagan Still A Mystery." CBS News.com

External links

[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9801E4D7153EF933A25753C1A96F958260&n=Top%2fReference%2fTimes%20Topics%2fPeople%2fM%2fMorris%2c%20Edmund The Hollow Man – New York Times review of Dutch]
Washington Monthly review by Jonathan Alter
BusinessWeek Online review by Douglas Harbrecht
[https://www.c-span.org/video/?116329-1/dutch-memoir-ronald-reagan Presentation by Morris on Dutch at the American Enterprise Institute, December 7, 1998]
[https://www.c-span.org/video/?152767-1/dutch-memoir-ronald-reagan Presentation by Morris on Dutch at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, October 12, 1999]
[https://www.c-span.org/video/?153861-1/dutch-memoir-ronald-reagan Booknotes interview with Morris on Dutch, December 5, 1999.]

4 : 1999 books|American biographies|Books about Ronald Reagan|Random House books

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