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History: An Agent’s Life Inside the Secret Service. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2007.

Quigley, Joan. “What Does Joan Say?” My Seven Years as White House Astrologer to Nancy and Ronald Reagan. New York: Birch Lane Press, 1990.

Quirk, Lawrence J. Jane Wyman: The Actress and the Woman. New York: Dembner Books, 1986.

Reagan, Maureen. First Father, First Daughter: A Memoir. Boston: Little, Brown, 1989.

Reagan, Michael, with Jim Denney. Twice Adopted. Nashville: Broadman and Holman, 2004.

Reagan, Michael, with Joe Hyams. On the Outside Looking In. New York: Zebra Books, 1988.

Reagan, Nancy. I Love You, Ronnie: The Letters of Ronald Reagan to Nancy Reagan. New York: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2000, 2002.

Reagan, Nancy, with Bill Libby. Nancy. New York: William Morrow, 1980.

Reagan, Nancy, with William Novak. My Turn: The Memoirs of Nancy Reagan. New York: Random House, 1989.

Reagan, Ron. My Father at 100: A Memoir. New York: Viking Penguin, 2011.

Reagan, Ronald. An American Life—The Autobiography. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1990. Kindle.

———. Reagan: A Life in Letters. Edited by Kiron K. Skinner, Annelise Anderson, and Martin Anderson. New York: Free Press, 2003.

Reagan, Ronald, with Richard G. Hubler. Where’s the Rest of Me? The Ronald Reagan Story. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1965.

Reed, Thomas C. The Reagan Enigma: 1964–1980. Los Angeles: Figueroa Press, 2014.

Regan, Donald T. For the Record: From Wall Street to Washington. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988.

Rollins, Ed, with Tom DeFrank. Bare Knuckles and Back Rooms: My Life in American Politics. New York: Broadway Books, 1996.

Roosevelt, Selwa “Lucky.” Keeper of the Gate. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1990.

Rosebush, James. True Reagan: What Made Ronald Reagan Great and Why It Matters. New York: Center Street, 2016.

Schary, Dore. Case History of a Movie. New York: Random House, 1950.

Shilts, Randy. And the Band Played On: People, Politics, and the AIDS Epidemic. New York: Penguin Books, 1988.

Shultz, George P. Turmoil and Triumph: My Years as Secretary of State. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1993.

Sinatra, Barbara, with Wendy Holden. Lady Blue Eyes: My Life with Frank. New York: Crown Archetype, 2011.

Sinatra, Tina, with Jeff Coplon. My Father’s Daughter: A Memoir. New York: Berkley Books, 2000.

Skinner, Kiron D., Annelise Anderson, and Martin Anderson, eds. Reagan, in His Own Hand. New York: Free Press, 2001.

Speakes, Larry, with Robert Pack. Speaking Out: The Reagan Presidency from Inside the White House. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1988.

Spencer, Stuart K. Behind the Podium: My Fifty Years in Politics. Self-published, 2013.

Spitz, Bob. Reagan: An American Journey. New York: Penguin Books, 2018.

Tate, Sheila. Lady in Red: An Intimate Portrait of Nancy Reagan. New York: Crown Forum, 2018.

Van Voris, Jacqueline. College: A Smith Mosaic. West Springfield, MA: M. J. O’Malley, 1975.

Von Damm, Helene. At Reagan’s Side: Twenty Years in the Political Mainstream. New York: Doubleday, 1988.

Wallace, Chris (from the NBC News White Paper). First Lady: A Portrait of Nancy Reagan. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1986.

Wallace, Mike, with Gary Paul Gates. Between You and Me: A Memoir. New York: Hyperion, 2005.

Wallison, Peter J. Ronald Reagan: The Power of Conviction and the Success of His Presidency. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2003.

Weinberg, Mark. Movie Nights with the Reagans: A Memoir. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2018.

Wilber, Del Quentin. Rawhide Down: The Near Assassination of Ronald Reagan. New York: Henry Holt, 2011.

Wills, Garry. Reagan’s America: Innocents at Home. New York: Open Road Integrated Media, 2017.

NOTES

INTRODUCTION

“So, we go over”: George P. Shultz, interview by author, Palo Alto, CA, October 20, 2016.

“Nancy was dying for him to have one”: ibid.

“For years, it had troubled me… nothing positive was likely to happen”: Nancy Reagan with William Novak, My Turn: The Memoirs of Nancy Reagan (New York: Random House, 1989), 53.

“She watched the people… make a friend of the first lady”: Shultz, author interview, October 20, 2016.

“My father was as good… make that happen”: Ron Reagan, interview by author, Seattle, July 23, 2017.

“an inseparable team politically and personally… He would never have been president without her”: Stuart K. Spencer, Behind the Podium: My Fifty Years in Politics (self-pub., 2013), 37.

“Her particular quality… the nasty business”: Edmund Morris, interview by author, Kent, CT, August 7, 2017.

“She was the guardian… in my view”: James A. Baker, interview by author, Houston, January 4, 2017.

“an anachronism… the reality of American woman today—what they want to be and what they need to be”: Chris Wallace (from the NBC News White Paper), First Lady: A Portrait of Nancy Reagan (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1986), 84.

“You can get just so far… trust me”: Lou Cannon, President Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime (New York: Public Affairs, 1991, 2000), 192.

“It’s part of Ronnie’s character… like the bad guy”: Nancy Reagan with Novak, My Turn, 91.

CHAPTER ONE

“I’ve always wanted to belong… could take care of”: Nancy Reagan with Bill Libby, Nancy (New York: William Morrow, 1980), 141.

who had just turned eleven: Various accounts have been given of Edith Luckett’s age when she appeared onstage for the first time, some as young as six. The local papers show East Lynne was playing at the Columbia Theater in late July 1899.

“So impressive was her work… in every corner”: Gardner Mack, “Edith Luckett Once an Infant Phenom, but Smashed Rule by Becoming Star,” Washington Times, October 25, 1914, 13.

“Edith Luckett is an earnest… the present system”: “Lucky Edith Luckett,” Philadelphia Inquirer, November 9, 1913, 55.

“kind of a momma’s boy”: Beverly Beyette, “Nancy Reagan’s Early Years: A Matter of Relativity,” Los Angeles Times, January 20, 1981.

“Miss Edith Luckett… initial performance shortly”: “Miss Edith Luckett Is Secretly Married,” Washington Evening Star, July 21, 1916, 15.

“one-legged tap dancer… knife thrower”: Anne Edwards, The Reagans: Portrait of a Marriage (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2003), 3.

a wildly unconventional lifestyle… little secret of her sexual relationships with women: Her name was also associated with a semi-infamous West Hollywood landmark. In 1918 Nazimova had bought a Spanish-style mansion on LA’s Sunset Boulevard, which she converted to a hotel when she hit financial difficulties in 1926. Known as the Garden of Allah, it went through a succession of owners and had a