Veteran political reporter Lou Cannon has earned glowing reviews for President Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime, a 948-page opus that charts its subject's ! political journey from Sacramento to Washington. So why haven't you heard more about it? That's simple: the book was released barely a week before Kitty Kelley's hit-and-run job on Nancy Reagan. Cannon is upset that Simon & Schuster, publisher of both biographies, didn't live up to a verbal agreement to keep the release of the Kelley book separate from his own tome. After numerous leaks about the Kelley book's contents, the company moved up its publication...
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