Title: Stupid Concept, Bad Novel
Product review: Edmund Morris tossed away his reputation as a biographer on the par with the biggest names in the business, indulged himself in an unrealized ambition and made his book on President Reagan into a work of fiction. What was he thinking? And what were his editors thinking? It was hard to get past the slightly goofy/creepy concept of a non-fiction novel where the author intrudes so often into the story, but the secondary and damning fact here is that this is also not a good book at all. Morris says inexplicable things about his subject like when he mentions the clarity of our fortieth President's saliva. What was THAT about? Morris might recover from this, who knows, but my advice to anyone, Reagan fan, history student, lover of fiction, is don't pick up this book because it's not even slightly worth your time.
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