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Reagan’s Back: The Dutch Controversy and American Letters
- Biography
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Volume 32, Number 4, Fall 2009
- pp. 643-669
- 10.1353/bio.0.0143
- Article
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“Reagan’s Back” is a study of the reception surrounding Edmund Morris’s controversial biography of Ronald Reagan, Dutch. I argue that the hostility that greeted Morris’s experiment indicated a resistance to the image of Reagan presented in the book itself, a “free indirect” portrayal enabled by literary fictional techniques antithetical to Reagan iconography as it has developed over the past two decades.