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\"More than five years in the making, based on hundreds of interviews and access to previously unavailable documents, ... [this is a] chronicle of the full arc of Ronald Reagan's epic life--giving full weight to the Hollywood years, his transition to politics and rocky but ultimately successful run as California governor, and ultimately, of course, his ... presidency, filled with storm and stress but climaxing with his peace talks with the Soviet Union\"-- Provided by publisher.

[RICH GEDMAN] was insulted by the offer. ''Sure, $2.65 million is a lot of money to turn down,'' he says, ''but in baseball you get paid according to what your peers make. I felt I should be somewhere in the category of Tony Pena of the Cardinals.'' [Lou Gorman], however, compared Gedman to the catchers [Bob Boone], Ernie Whitt and Rick Dempsey, implying they were better defensively than Gedman. ''I felt like we were in a car dealership, discussing automobile parts,'' Gedman says of the negotiations. ''That's when I decided it might be better to shop around.'' ''Bill Lajoie, the Tigers' general manager, told me they had no interest in Rich,'' [Jack Sands] says, ''even though I pointed out to him that we were asking for less money than they had on the table for [Lance Parrish].'' He got an identical response from the Yankees. [George Steinbrenner] told him, ''We think Joel Skinner is going to be our catcher of the future.'' (Skinner was recently demoted to the minor leagues.) The former Yankee pitcher Bob Shirley was incredulous when New York passed on Gedman. ''In the past you could always count on George going out and signing the players we really needed,'' Shirley says. ''Gedman seemed like a sure bet. I can't believe we didn't need a left-handed hitting catcher in Yankee Stadium - especially since Steinbrenner wants an all-star in every position. But word had it it was 'hands-off' in Gedman's case.'' A month later, Steinbrenner, having demoted his ''catcher of the future'' to the minor leagues, lamented what might have been a prudent, but hasty, decision on his part. ''If I knew Skinner would hit .140,'' he said from his box in Yankee Stadium, ''I would have gone after Rich Gedman.'' (Ironically, Gedman has been suffering through a similar slump, hitting below .200 since he's come back.) Gedman laughs coolly at his plight. ''For Rich Gedman,'' he says, ''it's been a case of bad timing.''

''That hit [KEITH RICHARDS] very hard,'' she says. ''It dawned on him right then and there that the Stones had become Mick's band, and over a period of time it became more apparent that Mick didn't want to change that.'' [Jane Rose] is quick to add that [Mick Jagger] stuck by Richards during his six years of drug addiction. ''Mick was the one person who never stopped believing in Keith. He visited regularly and went out of his way to make sure Keith got everything he needed to get well,'' she says. ''Only I don't think Mick intended for him to get this well.'' Richards was off heroin by the time the Stones were ready to tour in 1978. ''Suddenly, I was ready to resume my responsibilities,'' he says. ''I showed up saying, 'O.K., I'm here to take the weight off your shoulders.' I thought I was doing Mick a favor, but he saw it as a power grab. In his mind, I'd given him up, and why should I think I could just waltz back in and pick up where I'd left off? He resented it. He'd gotten used to wielding the scepter. And when I returned, I don't think either of us understood the ramifications of it.'' Richards says that record-industry strategists were shocked when word got around that ''Talk Is Cheap'' might be ''the best non-Rolling Stones Rolling Stones album'' ever made. Calls interrupted the band's tour rehearsals with disturbing regularity, many of them from Jagger's business manager in London. ''Her majesty'' - the reference is to Jagger - ''decided it was time the Stones got back together to make a new album,'' Richards recalls. ''And I thought, 'Nice timing, Mick - just as I'm coming into my own, you turn up again.' '' ''It was inevitable,'' Richards says of their reunion. ''I told Mick that even if we both said 'I never want to see you again' we'd still have to deal with each other for the rest of our lives.'' He ticks off a list of their corporate co-ventures: reissues of Rolling Stones albums; merchandising; a vast publishing business, a portfolio of investments. ''There are too many businesses that demand our attention, too many people who depend on the salaries we pay them,'' he says. ''It's like a marriage with no divorce.''