The President & Mrs. Reagan
An American Love Story
by Harry Benson
Overview
From the Publisher
As the Reagans' favorite photographer, Harry Benson has long enjoyed a special relationship with the former first family, photographing them numerous times for Life and Vanity Fair magazines. His photographs of the couple, taken at the White House and at the Reagans' homes and ranches, are intimate and appealing records of a happy and fulfilling marriage. Recently, Nancy Reagan invited Benson to photograph the couple together one last time, a bittersweet occasion given the former president's Alzheimer's Disease. That portrait and others spanning nearly 40 years are gathered together in this charming book, which also contains an introduction by Patti Davis about her parents, as well as Benson's own memories of his encounters with the Reagans.
My thoughts
I wouldn't have purchased this book had it not been in a dollar sale from BookCloseouts.com but I'm very glad I purchased it. I love photography so that was the reason I was drawn to it, but the love story that is told within the pages is a sweet and charming bonus.
Favorite Passage
We traveled from gray fog into yellow sunlight, leaving behind the bristle of the sea for the feathery smells of oak trees, hay, warm-baked earth. These are the scents of my childhood.
