![]() Playwright Hudes won a Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2012 for Water by the Spoonful and wrote the book (and the screen adaptation) for the musical In the Heights. My Broken Language: A Memoir by Quiara Alegría Hudes (One World) ![]() She also reveals that the first lady was not as devoted to family values as she liked to suggest.Ģ. ![]() ![]() Tumulty exposes how the White House mishandled the AIDS crisis and homosexuality and did damage control on the Iran-contra scandal. Tumulty clarifies Nancy Reagan’s influence on her husband in their 52-year marriage, from her belief in astrology to, more significantly, her opinions on White House staff members. Now Washington Post columnist Tumulty not only fact-checks and corrects the former first lady’s story, but also provides a highly readable, definitive history of Nancy Reagan’s impact on her husband’s image and politics, and how the White House worked. ![]() In her memoir My Turn (written with William Novak), Nancy Reagan chronicled her rise from Anne Frances Robbins, a child who was raised by relatives, into a Chicago Gold Coast debutante who moved to Hollywood and set her sights on recently divorced actor Ronald Reagan, and then made him a successful president. The Triumph of Nancy Reagan b y Karen Tumulty (Simon & Schuster) ![]()
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