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Meet Joan Quigley. White House astrologer to the Reagan White House. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Quigley http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Quigley
by adrianhoward 12y ago
Meet Joan Quigley. White House astrologer to the Reagan White House. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Quigley http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Quigley
- pavel_lishin 12y agoThis makes me realize that there is probably a lot more that I missed in "Stranger in a Strange Land", just by virtue of my age and not having been born in the USA.
- dmckeon 12y ago"Stranger" was published in 1961, 20 years before Reagan, but still has many good insights on social and political patterns in the US. For a more dated, but more detailed and insightful view by a stranger, try: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_in_America https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_in_America
- pmoriarty 12y agoAlso see Philip K Dick's books from the 50's and 60's, which include actors as American Presidents.
- pavel_lishin 12y agoHuh, I didn't realize that. That's oddly prescient, then.
- denova 12y agoThere's a novel like this... Oh yes, Stranger in a Strange Land. I am pleased to find that this Joan Quigley character "was called on by First Lady Nancy Reagan in 1981", twenty years after Heinlein's book was published. > [Alice Douglas][1] — (sometimes called "Agnes"), wife of Joe Douglas. As the First Lady, she controls her husband, making major economic, political, and staffing decisions. She frequently consults an astrologer, Becky Vesant [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stranger_in_a_Strange_Land#Characters https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stranger_in_a_Strange_Land#Cha... edit: Oh, I see other people have posted about this already. Well that's the character's name, anyway.