Joan Quigley "What Does Joan Say? My Seven Years As White House Astrologer to Nancy and Ronald Reagan."
Describes her career as an astrological advisor to Ronald and Nancy Reagan during their White House years, discussing her impact on U.S. policy and key events of the Reagan administration.
As Nancy Reagan's astrologer for seven years, San Franciscan Quigley influenced the timing of the President's speeches, public appearances, surgery and trips. In this self-congratulatory tell-all, she also claims that she softened Ronald Reagan's stance toward Gorbachev, paved the way for a friendly Geneva Summit, helped Reagan win two presidental elections and protected him from potential assassins. She takes credit for helping to shape his "visionary" strategy of particle-beam weapons in space (Star Wars), for giving First Lady Nancy an image-overhaul and for defusing the controversy over the president's visit to Bitburg cemetery where Nazis are buried. Separate chapters cover the birth charts of Reagan and Gorbachev and the "breathless possibilities" in the chemistry between them. Although this tiresome memoir would have worked better as a magazine article, it offers an intimate, different, unintentionally devastating slant on the Reagan White House.
Hardcover, 1990.
New book. Tiny taped tear on DJ. Very minor shelf wear from rubbing.