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What Nancy Reagan's Biographer Learned in Her 5 Years of Research: She Was 'Long Overdue for a Reassessment'
Throughout and after her husband's presidency, Nancy Reagan came to be known as a fierce and devoted ally to her husband, Ronald Reagan, as well as someone with a reputation for sometimes being woefully out of touch.
Nancy reagan biography book
But when she was first introduced to the American public, Mrs. Reagan wanted to be most known as a wife.
Photos of her gazing lovingly at her husband came to define her first ladyship, with critics arguing that the adoration appeared put-on or exaggerated.
But the gaze, says Washington Post columnist Karen Tumulty, was always real.
Tumulty began researching the former first lady in 2016, when she was approached by her publisher with an idea for a book: a definitive biography of the wife of the 40th president.
That book, The Triumph of Nancy Reagan, was released this week.
"At that point, I really didn't know anything ab