First Lady Nancy Reagan’s recent published biography authored by Karen Tumulty, I predict, will become one of those books that provide footnotes for historical writers for several years to come.
Maybe sooner comparisons because Tumulty writes about Nancy’s contribution to Ronald when his memory began to fail.
Is this old professor’s opinion a bit biased? Maybe.
Author Karen Tumulty and I both edited at the Daily Texan, student newspaper at the University of Texas in Austin.
My year was 1949-50. In 1977 she graduated with a journalism degree, went on to work at Time before her present editorial job at the Washington Post.
I compare the excellence of Karen Tumulty’s biography of First Lady Nancy Reagan with the research details of David McCulloch’s biography of President Harry Truman. Both books are excellent reads and research treasures.
McCulloch’s book has been my manuscript lodestone for eight years. My fiction says in 1944 President Roosevelt chose a Governor instead of a Senator for his Vice-President.
Karen’s extensive biography, I predict, will provide similar source material for First Lady and Presidential stories that she will inspire. Maybe inspire some future fiction when the first Lady becomes the first female President.
