The Washington Post, September 29th, 1999
The weirdness begins immediately. Edmund Morris's "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's 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 subj...
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