The only biography ever authorized by a sitting President--yet written
with complete interpretive freedom--Dutch is as revolutionary in
method as it is formidable in scholarship. Thirteen years of exhaustive
research in the archives of Washington and Hollywood, and thousands of
hours of interviews with the President and his family, friends, allies,
and enemies, equipped Morris with an unmatched knowledge of one of the
twentieth century's greatest leaders. This monumental work offers the
most insightful and elegant portrait to date of Ronald Reagan: the young
"Dutch," the middle-aged Cold Warrior, and the septuagenarian Chief
Executive. Written with imagination, yet always anchored by the weight
of research and fact, Dutch stands as both a landmark in the form of
biography and an unparalleled historical account of the rise and rule of
Ronald Reagan.