Nancy Reagan: The Unauthorized Biography (Mass Market Paperback)

~ (Author) "Two entries on Nancy Reagan's birth certificate are still accurate-her sex and her color..." (more)
Key Phrases: White House, Nancy Reagan, Ronald Reagan (more...)

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

This infamous look at the former First Lady spent 12 weeks on PW 's hardcover bestseller list and inspired George Carpozi Jr.'s scathing Poison Pen: The Unauthorized Biography of Kitty Kelley. More than 800,000 hardcovers are in print.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Description

A portrait of the former First Lady discusses Nancy's rise from college coed to Hollywood starlet to governor's wife, her influence over Ron, the controversy over her ball gowns, her alleged affair with the Chairman of the Board, and much more. Reprint.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 688 pages
• Publisher: Pocket (March 1, 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0671646478
• ISBN-13: 978-0671646479
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 4.3 x 2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #739,475 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

Customer Reviews

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12 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Quite A Revealing Book!!, January 14, 1998

By A Customer

I wasn't expecting much when I sat down to read this book. I assumed it would be a fairly cut and dried bio of an marginally interesting, blatantly social-climbing first lady. Was I wrong!! There's plenty to read here about Nancy Reagan, her family, the presidency, and more. They don't call Kitty Kelley the Saddam Hussein of journalists for nothing! I enjoyed this book very much, (going on the assumption that all of her sources were being 100% honest of course) and I'd recommend it without reservation.

20 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Go Kitty Go, April 22, 2002

By	John G. Hilliard (Toronto Canada) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

You just have to love Kitty Kelly, if a subject of any of her books was ever short with a staff member, cut someone off in traffic, or returned a movie late Kitty will find out and make a chapter out of it. This book is really no different, it is the standard, made for tabloid mini series book from her, but that is probably why you buy it. Whenever a person gets to a high profile public job they are always going to have issues that the rest of us what to read about and authors tend to make a little more scandalous then they actualy were. This case is no exception with a person that was first a successful actress and then the First Lady of one of the biggest states and then the country. There are any numbers of toes that have been stepped on and Kitty found them all.

The most interesting bits I found were the years in the White House and her hatchet jobs of staff members of her husbands that she did not like, the odd calls to her San Francisco psychic to plan major events, and the wonderful warm relationship she had with her kids (sarcasm in high gear). Overall this is a fun and gossipy kind of book that you would expect from the author. At times there is a bit much detail, but some judicious page skipping will correct that issue. The book is a good representation of all the bad days Nancy had and is worth reading for no other reason to understand the closest advisor Ron had.

12 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must read for America!, September 23, 1998

By A Customer

I am reading the book (Nancy Reagan Unathorized Biography) while I listen to President Clinton get slammed in the Media. I believe the American people would be surprised, as I am, to know the life style the Reagans lived. On page 82 at the top of the page, I read that President Reagan raped Selene Walters,She was 19yrs old he was 42. That is information I never expected to get out of this book. I don't believe I would have ever gotten this information if I had not gotten it in this book. I wonder why no one has brought this up.This is a must read for America.

Roberta Rager