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But in Daviss case, they highlight what has arguably defined her life trying to make sense of being the daughter of Ronald and Nancy Reagan and a story that mixes politics and power with the more human themes of anger, emotional estrangement, damage and broken relationships...
But, with bracing honesty and a warm sense of humour, she talks about them all: her lifelong sense of distance from her parents, her hugely difficult relationship with her mother, and how politics always threatened to remove her father from her life something that reached a hideous extreme when he underwent an assassination attempt in 1981.es..
Two children from his earlier marriage to the actor Jane Wyman only became part of Daviss life when she was eight, within limitations that often seem cruel: in the new book, she recalls that when the rest of the family went on shared summer vacations, her stepbrother Michael would be sent alone to summer camp...
Early in her life, Davis knew that her father whose family history revolved around an alcoholic dad had big political ambitions, and a set of very clear ideas. There were lots of dinner table conversations about government being too big: Were being taxed too much and governments too much in our lives..
When we talk about Reagans record on racism, she mentions clear memories from her childhood (people, he told her, come in different colours they are all Gods children), and an episode in his first presidential term, when he and Nancy publicly stood alongside a black family in Maryland who had been targeted by the Ku Klux Klan..
