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Article: REAGAN BIOGRAPHER EDMUND MORRIS PRODUCES WORK OF FAKERY.(Editorial)(Column)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- September 30, 1999
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The weirdness begins immediately. Edmund Morris' ``Dutch,'' his ``memoir'' of Ronald Reagan, bears this dedication:
In Memoriam
Christine Reagan
June 26, 1947
That child died shortly after being born, prematurely, to Reagan and his first wife, Jane Wyman. Nothing in Morris' narrative suggests that this event was formative to Reagan. So the eerily inscrutable dedication foreshadows the perversity of the book. Morris has enveloped himself in melodrama that seems designed to divert attention from the book's subject to the author - indeed, to make, in the postmodern manner, the author into the subject.
Before the onset of ...