PREVIEW: JANE WYMAN: Author Max Boot, "Reagan: The Life and Legend," portrays how Reagan was rocked by the breakup of his marriage and family when Jane Wyman left him; and Reagan became a libertine in Hollywood until he met Nancy Davis. More tonight and n
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 15 November 2024
⏱️ 2 minutes
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| 0:54.8 | This is John Batchett, continuing my conversation with Max Boot, the author of the new Reagan, |
| 1:01.2 | The Life and Legend. |
| 1:03.1 | Jane Wyman, his wife, left him. |
| 1:07.0 | He was a movie actress, and she went on to a very, very big career. |
| 1:12.2 | Ronald Reagan, a movie actor who had seen his best years behind him after the war, was in despair |
| 1:19.8 | and became a libertine for the only time in his life. |
| 1:25.4 | Max describes what that was like and how he got out of it, how he was rescued. Here's |
| 1:32.9 | Max Boot to describe. Much more of this tonight and next week. Max Boot, Reagan, the life and legend. |
| 1:41.7 | No, I don't think he ever drank heavily. He was always afraid of alcohol based on his father's experience, |
| 1:47.1 | and his typical pattern would be to nurse a single cocktail through the evening. |
| 1:52.1 | But this was the one period of his life where he was womanizing, |
| 1:55.5 | and you don't think of Ronald Reagan, the ultimate family man or the ultimate husband |
| 1:59.6 | as being a womanizer, but he was after Jane Wyman divorced him. |
| 2:04.4 | And it was really Jane's initiative to divorce him. He was shocked by that and kind of left a drift and went through a series of hookups with various Hollywood actresses before Nancy Davis finally appeared in his life. |
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