SIMI, Calif., April 27 (UPI) -- Former U.S. President Ronald Reagan's diaries about his eight years in the White House are being released to the public by a New York publisher.
The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library Foundation, Simi, Calif., and HarperCollins Publishing have agreed to publish the handwritten near-daily entries next year, the Washington Post reported Wednesday.
HarperCollins won the rights to the diaries with a high seven-figure bid, the Post said. The format and title have yet to be decided.
In 1998, four years after he left office, Reagan announced he suffered from Alzheimer's disease. He died last June of pneumonia.
"The diaries are amazingly dispassionate, clear and sequential," said Edmund Morris, who read the five volumes for his 1999 "Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan."
The diaries contain no bombshells, but HarperCollins executives anticipate Reagan's comments about world leaders will generate interest outside the United States.
