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At Vanity Fair I am most indebted to Graydon Carter for his original assignment and his continuing support after it turned into a seemingly never-ending book project, Chris Garrett for her patience and fairness in working out my numerous leaves of absence, Aimee Bell, David Harris, Lindsay Bucha, and Abby Field.
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Acknowledgments
At Warner Books, my gratitude goes to Jamie Raab for being the first to see that there was a book in those articles, and for her many extensions; Rick Horgan for his most useful editorial comments and guidelines; Anne Twomey, Ivan Held, Robert Castillo, Harvey-Jane Kowal, and Jimmy Franco.
For constant moral support and encouragement over the long haul, I thank my agents Anne Sibbald and Mort Janklow; my friends Brigid Berlin, Colin Shanley, Claudia Cohen, Virginia Coleman, Isabel Rattazzi, Eric Freeman, Ross Bleckner, Paul Wilmot, Adam Lippes, Doris Ammann, and George Frei; and my sisters Suzanne Mead and Barbara Williams.
After Nancy Reagan, there is no one more responsible for making this book a reality than my longtime Vanity Fair editor and friend, Wayne Lawson, whose intelligence, taste, and sense of fairness are reflected on every page.
Bob Colacello
Amagansett, New York
August 2004
Notes
Chapter One: Early Ronnie, 1911–1932
1. Neil Reagan oral history, p. 9.
2. Edwards, Early Reagan, p. 33; Cannon, Reagan, p. 23; E. Morris, Dutch, pp. 14, 688.
3. Ronald Reagan with Hubler, Where’s the Rest of Me? , p. 3.
4. Neil Reagan oral history, p. 38.
5. Ibid., p. 43.
6. Cannon, Reagan, p. 22.
7. Edwards, Early Reagan, p. 57.
8. Ronald and Nancy Reagan’s personal papers, held at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, box 84, “Letters/Nelle Reagan, Reagan family letters (early),”
“My Sonnet,” by Nelle Reagan; Wills, Reagan’s America, p. 23.
9. Ronald Reagan with Hubler, Where’s the Rest of Me? , p. 9.
10. Edwards, Early Reagan, p. 62.
11. John Wilson obituary, Whiteside Sentinel, circa March 10, 1883, Ronald and Nancy Reagan’s personal papers, held at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, box 84, “Letters/Nelle Reagan, Reagan family letters (early)”; Edwards, Early Reagan, pp. 23–25, pp. 29–30.
12. Wills, Reagan’s America, p. 10; Edwards, Early Reagan, pp. 26–28.
13. Edwards, Early Reagan, p. 28.
14. E. Morris, Dutch, p. 688. Anne Edwards states that Nelle Wilson was born on July 24, 1883 (Edwards, Early Reagan, p. 31).
15. John Wilson obituary, Whiteside Sentinel, circa March 10, 1883, Ronald and Nancy Reagan’s personal papers, held at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, box 84, “Letters/Nelle Reagan, Reagan family letters (early).”
16. Edwards, Early Reagan, pp. 31–32.
17. Ibid., p. 32; E. Morris, Dutch, pp. 16–17; Wills, Reagan’s America, p. 16; Neil Reagan oral history, p. 10.
18. E. Morris, Dutch, p. 13.
19. Ibid.
20. Neil Reagan oral history, p. 12.
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21. Wills, Reagan’s America, pp. 16–17; p. 23. See also Edwards, Early Reagan, pp.
34–36.
22. Wills, Reagan’s America, pp. 19–24; Barbara A. Chernow and George A. Vallasi, eds., The Columbia Encyclopedia: Fifth Edition (New York: Columbia University Press, 1993), p. 770.
23. Wills, Reagan’s America, p. 24; Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1960 edition, “Disciples of Christ,” “Carry Nation.”
24. E. Morris, Dutch, pp. 18, 22.
25. Edwards, Early Reagan, p. 37; E. Morris, Dutch, pp. 25–26. Some sources say that Jack Reagan worked at Marshall Field’s rather than at the Fair Store (Cannon, Reagan, p. 24).
26. E. Morris, Dutch, pp. 27–29; Edwards, Early Reagan, pp. 37–38, 40.
27. Edwards, Early Reagan, p. 39.
28. E. Morris, Dutch, p. 30.
29. Ronald Reagan with Hubler, Where’s the Rest of Me? , p. 13.
30. Ibid.; E. Morris, Dutch, p. 30; Edwards, Early Reagan, pp. 42, 44; Ronald