I Love You, Ronnie: The Letters of Ronald Reagan to Nancy Reagan

Nancy Reagan, Ronald Reagan

Random House, 2000 - Biography & Autobiography - 189 pages

"This book offers insight into one of America's most famous couples and into the love story they lived. Through letters and reflections, the characters, personalities, and lives of an American president and his first lady are revealed. Over half a century, we see how Ronald Reagan wrote from the heart to the person he was closest to. Nancy Reagan comments on the letters, and writes with love and insight about her husband and the many phases of their life together. She describes how they met and fell in love and how their love grew over a long, eventful, and happy marriage, and she recalls the central role that letters, as well as cards and telegrams, played in their lives. The private life of this couple comes alive in this American story."--BOOK JACKET.

Contents

• Section 1: 3
• Section 2: 5
• Section 3: 28

About the author

Ronald Wilson Reagan, 1911 - 2004 Ronald Reagan was born in Tampico, Illinois on February 6, 1911. He worked his way through Eureka College, where he studied economics and sociology. After graduation, he became a radio sports announcer for WOC, a small radio station in Davenport, Iowa. Reagan enlisted in the Army Reserve. An agent for Warner Brothers "discovered" him in Los Angeles in 1937 and offered him a seven-year contract. He played George Gipp in his most acclaimed film, "Knute Rockne -- All American" in 1940. In 1942, the Army Air Force called him to active duty and assigned him to the 1st Motion Picture Unit in Culver City, California, where he made over 400 training films. On December 9, 1945, he was discharged. During the next two decades he appeared in 53 films. As president of the Screen Actors Guild, he became embroiled in disputes over the issue of Communism in the film industry and his political views shifted from liberal to conservative. He toured the country as a television host, becoming a spokesman for conservatism. In 1966, he was elected Governor of California and was re-elected in 1970. For several months after his gubernatorial term ended in 1974, he wrote a syndicated newspaper column and provided commentaries on radio stations across the country. On November 20, 1975, Reagan announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for president. He lost the party's nomination, but his showing laid the groundwork for the 1980 election. After winning the party's nomination in 1980, he chose George Bush as his running mate. Reagan won the election and was President of the United States from 1981 to 1989. At the end of his administration, the Nation was enjoying its longest recorded period of peacetime prosperity without recession or depression. In 1994, he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. He died on June 5, 2004.

Bibliographic information

• Title: I Love You, Ronnie: The Letters of Ronald Reagan to Nancy Reagan
• Authors: Nancy Reagan, Ronald Reagan
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Random House, 2000
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Sep 22, 2008
• ISBN: 0375505547, 9780375505546
• Length: 189 pages
• Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs; Biography & Autobiography / Political; Biography & Autobiography / Presidents & Heads of State; Biography & Autobiography / Women; Literary Collections / Letters; Political Science / Political Process / Leadership