Reagan in His Own Hand also includes a smattering of other writings going back to Reagan's high school days, many of which previously were quoted in biographies by Anne Edwards, Morris or me.

That love will not end with the end of this life," Reagan wrote. "... all that is required is that you believe and tell God you put yourself in his hands." Did the letter have any impact?

Finally on Saturday afternoon, they knew that the time had come. Just after 1 p.m., as Nancy Reagan held his hand, Ronald Reagan opened his eyes, he hadn‘t opened them in five days ...

Reagan, in His Own Hand is about intellect. This work delivers a cache of rough-draft essays as proof that former president Ronald Wilson Reagan actually "had a mind." The question should've been ...