03372cam a2200517 4500 1140808874 TxAuBib 20240207120000.0 ||||||s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781324093497 1324093498 c29666e7-27b1-4314-9ebc-7eb69250ef78 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 9937134 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Davis, Patti. Dear Mom and Dad [Libby] : A Letter About Family, Memory, and the America We Once Knew. Liveright, 2024. Cold war. Ronald Reagan. family. conservative. war on drugs. Governor. California. drug abuse. republican. Acting. Alzheimer. Hollywood. White House. Reaganomics. Nancy Reagan. parent child. first family. iran-contra. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 2770kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Biography & Autobiography. Medical. Politics. Nonfiction. HTML:<p><strong>A remarkably poignant writer for our troubled times, Patti Davis writes about love, loss, and the power of redemption in this poetic letter to her long-gone parents.</strong></p>Written with dignity and grace in the form of a letter to her parents, Ronald and Nancy Reagan, Dear Mom and Dad is that surprisingly poignant work that succeeds not only as a memoir but as a moving account that will inspire readers to recall their own childhoods in a totally new light.<br /> <br /> Eager to retell the narrative of her own family and her coming-of-age, Patti Davis casts aside misperceptions that defined her in the past. Far from being the enfant terrible, Dear Mom and Dad reveals young Patti as a sensitive child, who was not able to be the public person her family demanded. Just as she re-examines her own role in an increasingly dysfunctional family drama, Davis casts an empathetic yet honest eye on her parents—on her father, the eternal lifeguard, who saved seventy-seven people, yet failed to create a coherent AIDS policy, and her mother, who never escaped her own tortured youth.<br /> <br /> What comes across are Davis's burnished skills as a writer, something she always dreamed of becoming. Even as she unravels her mother's highly edited persona, and her father's loving but distant personality, Davis remains steadfast in her artistic expression, as she melds irony, comedy, and tragedy with dreamlike memories of an ever-present past. Dear Mom and Dad, with its account of her father's Alzheimer's and her mother's end-of-life struggles, becomes an account of forgiveness, reaching levels of redemption rarely found in contemporary memoirs. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2024-02-06 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=c29666e7-27b1-4314-9ebc-7eb69250ef78&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=c29666e7-27b1-4314-9ebc-7eb69250ef78&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)