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Rage for Fame: Ascent of Clare Boothe Luce (Hardcover)

by Sylvia Jukes Morris (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 561 pages
  • Publisher: Random House USA Inc (23 Oct 1997)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0394575555
  • ISBN-13: 978-0394575551
  • Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 16.8 x 4.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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Draws on Luce's private papers, letters, and diary to trace her life from childhood, through her rise to success, to 1943, as her marriage to Henry Luce is breaking up and she is elected to Congress.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Rip-roaring historic feminist saga including feminine wiles., 15 Sep 1998
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Clare Booth Luce makes a goals list of what she wished to accomplish before age 35 including owning a yacht and fine roadster then appended the list to include "a few worthwhile things" including becoming conversant in four languages, writing plays and "earning $10,000 on my own!!". While the list partially trivializes Clare Booth Luce's assent upon society and politics - so does the author-Morris. Her rip-roaring saga is a little over-breathless - even Morris can't subdue the incredible versatility of a woman who overcame illegitimate circumstances, got what she set out to do - mostly, and wrote for Broadway before running for office. Nice work if you can get it! Clare is nobody's bimbo astutely observing everything fine chefs, authors, to politics many times better than her escorts. She notes that Hitler's brownshirts were quite similar to the KuKluxKlan which was outspoken for her time. If you enjoyed George Sand, the Algonquin Table and Dorothy Parker - this may be for you!
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2.0 out of 5 stars Morris is unworthy of her subject., 14 Oct 1997
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This book is a shame; Mrs. Luce deserves and, elsewhere, has received far more serious treatment. The work does, however, say a great deal about the exceptionally small Ms. Morris.
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