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# Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan Paperback – October 24, 2000

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Book
  

*by A***R on Reviewed in the United States on October 20, 2024*

Nice read for my collection

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Outstanding
  

*by C***N on Reviewed in the United States on May 2, 2013*

Highly recommend this book, and it may appeal to both fans and detractors of Reagan for different reasons.Ordered "Dutch" after seeing a PBS documentary about Reagan in which Morris was prominently featured.  Morris was selected by Reagan, probably more Nancy the "Dutch", to be the official historian after Reagan read his biography of Teddy Roosevelt, "the Rise of Theodore Roosevelt".  Morris was given extensive access to both Reagan and the White House including traveling to the Geneva and Reykjavík summits with Gorbachev.Morris creates a mythical "composite" character born in Chicago who crosses paths with Reagan, first in Dixon, then Eureka College and then as a writer in Hollywood, as they grow up through the same period.  He then writes the biography as a first person memoir of the "composite's" life recollections of Reagan.  Somewhere between Governor and President the point of view switches from "composite" to Morris; though I am not exactly sure when.  The work is primarily chronological with some occasional jumps, so the transition is murky.The "composite" detests Reagan, but you are left to decide if it is driven by philosophy or envy; the slightly nerdy kid with a limp that detests the beautiful people for whom life seems so easy.  In this guise he employs all the usual clichés of Reagan the "airhead", Reagan the "vacuous actor" lost without a script, Reagan the heartless of "trickle down" economics.  It culminates with the "composite's" son, who joins the SDS to fight Reagan as governor of California, disappearing forever after the riots at Berkley.Some reviews I have read criticize this as a series of unsupported "cheap shots", I think it was intended more to provide some perspective on those who opposed him at the time, and how controversial Reagan was.  We see Reagan, as a part of generation raised on FDR and New Deal, becoming disenchanted with big government.  He left the Democratic Party and took the Reagan democrats with him.Morris in contrast, fighting to remain objective, finds himself drawn to the magnetic power of a truly great man who uses his extraordinary talents, including a photographic memory, to fulfill his destiny.  The two primary foils he is pitted against are Tip O'Neil and Mikhail Gorbachev, both of whom Reagan defeats, one with an economic policy that turns around the nation , the other with SDI that wins the Cold War.However, Morris does not fawn over Reagan and deals with both Iran Contra and his physical deterioration in the second term, primarily his loss of hearing and battle with cancer.  Perhaps his most interesting metaphor is Reagan as a glacier.  An unstoppable force that uses people, with the exception of Nancy, like a glacier uses rocks in its path.  They grind the path forward until they are discarded into the moraine while the glacier moves inexorably on.Enjoy!

### ⭐ 1.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Disappointed
  

*by I***W on Reviewed in the United States on May 27, 2011*

After reading and thoroughly enjoying Morris' excellent books on Theodore Roosevelt, I tried to do the same with "Dutch" looking for insights into the Reagan years and the myth that Ronald Reagan has become.  Indeed some insights were presented, e.g., that Reagan was shallow, glib, personally distant and cold, and perpetually acting, but I knew that already.  The book offered no big revelations or new perceptions.Beyond that, the writing style (inserting the author as a lifelong friend and therefore narrator as opposed to researcher/analyst) was a mere trick, and the pseudo-chum relationship was described in a cloying manner.  The deeper I went into the wordy tome, the more I found myself skipping passages.  Finally, I stopped halfway through, and put the book down for good. I find that after this experience, I have no better understanding of the Reagan myth.I believe that both Reagan admirers and detractors would find this book to be of small value in furthering their useful knowledge of Reagan.

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