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Others who gave me very useful and much appreciated interviews for this first of two volumes and the Vanity Fair articles that preceded it were Martin and Annalise Anderson, Brooke Astor, Howard Baker, James A.
Baker III, the late Bill Blass, Robert and Justine Bloomingdale, Frank Bogert, Tom Bolan, William F. Buckley Jr., Serena Carroll, William Clark, Eleanor O’Connor Clarke, Judy Hargrave Coleman, Jan Cowles, Douglas Cramer, Sue Cummings, Arlene Dahl, Michael Dart, Carolyn Deaver, Michael Deaver, the late Fred de Cordova, Janet de Cordova, Angie Dick-enson, Barry Diller, Eric Douglas, Mica Ertegun, William Fine, Ron Fletcher, James Galanos, Angie Galbraith, John Gavin, Kenneth Giniger, the late Katharine Graham, the late C.Z. Guest, the late Richard Gully, Homer Hargrave Jr., Ed Helin, Reinaldo Herrera, Marcia Hobbs, Nancy Holmes, Leonora Hornblow, Linda LeRoy Janklow, Morton Janklow, the late Steven Kaufman, Nan Kempner, Arthur Laffer, Kenneth Jay Lane, Paul Laxalt, Liza Lerner, Gordon Luce, Aerin Magnin, Martin Manulis, the late Jacques Mapes, the late Jean Wescott Marshall, Jean Hayden Mathison, Peter McCoy, Bruce McFarland, Edwin Meese III, Nolan Miller, George Montgomery, Chase Morsey, Patricia Neal, Lyn Nofziger, China Ibsen Oughton, Charlotte Galbraith Ramage, Bess Reagan, Lyn Revson, Nancy Reynolds, Daniel Ruge, Ann Rutherford, Lily Safra, Laurie Salvatori, São Schlumberger, Peter Shifando, George Shultz, Tina Sinatra, Stuart Spencer, the late Robert Stack, Rosemarie Stack, Kevin Starr, Baroness Margaret Thatcher, Michael Thornton, Tucker Trainor, Florence van der Kemp, Helene von Damm, Lanetta Walhgren, Mike Wallace, Anne Washburn, John Wellborne, Nicholas Wetzel, Abra Rockefeller Wilkin, Pete Wilson, Alice Pirie Wirtz, Mickey Ziffren, and Peg Zwecker.
During the six years since I decided to write this book, I have been Acknowledgments
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dependent on an ever-changing but consistently able team of editorial assistants, researchers, and transcribers, including Georgia Flight, Chris Lawrence, Frank Banfi, Ted Panken, and Jonelle Lennon in New York and Long Island; Lisa Leff, Mack Polhemus, Todd O’Keeffe, Iris Berry, and Carol Bua in Los Angeles; and Steve Hammons in Washington, D.C. Bill Troop has stuck with this project almost from the beginning; I most appreciate his creative suggestions and persistence in tracking down those elusive things called facts. In the final crunch Matt Pressman, helped by Molly Fox and Matthew Williams, did an exceptionally thorough job on my endnotes, bibliography, and permissions.
Photo researcher Ann Schneider brought her usual diligence and taste to ferreting out previously unseen, striking, and revealing images of the vast cast of characters who were part of the Reagans’ lives. She was aided considerably in this task by Steve Branch, the audio-visual archivist at the Reagan Library.
Special thanks to Slim Aarons for his glamorous jacket photograph of the Reagans, taken in Acapulco on a weekend hosted by D.K. Ludwig, and to my pal Jonathan Becker for his most flattering author’s photo.
Thanks also to graphic designer Martin Saar for his overall visual advice.
I would also like to thank Brian and Mila Mulroney, Kiron Skinner, Maureen Smith, Kristina Stewart, and John Loring for their suggestions and introductions to sources, Bennett Ashley of Janklow, Newborn & Ashley for drawing up my contracts, Devereux Chatillon of Sonnerschein Nath & Rosenthal for her legal reading of my manuscript, Norman Switzer for showing me the General Electric house, Marc Short, former Executive Director of Young America’s Foundation, for his tour of Rancho del Cielo, Judith Wolfe at the Amagansett Public Library, Ron Marlow of the First Christian Church of Dixon, Valerie Yaros at the Screen Actors