Sylvia Jukes Morris

Price of Fame: The Honorable Clare Boothe Luce by Sylvia Jukes Morris. Paperback book in excellent pre-owned condition.

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The Honorable Clare Boothe Luce

“I hope I shall have ambition until the day I die,” Clare Boothe Luce told her biographer Sylvia Jukes Morris. Price of Fame, the concluding volume of the life of an exceptionally brilliant polymath, chronicles Luce’s progress from her arrival on Capitol Hill through her career as a diplomat, prolific journalist, and magnetic public speaker, as well as a playwright, screenwriter, pioneer scuba diver, early experimenter in psychedelic drugs, and grande dame of the GOP in the Reagan era. Tempestuously married to Henry Luce, the powerful publisher of Time Inc., she endured his infidelities while pursuing her own, and remained a practiced vamp well into her crowded later years, during which she strengthened her friendships with Winston Churchill, Somerset Maugham, John F. Kennedy, Evelyn Waugh, Lyndon Johnson, Salvador Dalí, Richard Nixon, William F. Buckley, Ronald Reagan, and countless other celebrities. Sylvia Jukes Morris is the only writer to have had complete access to Mrs. Luce’s prodigious collection of public and private papers. In addition, she had unique access to her subject, whose death at eighty-four ended a life that for variety of accomplishment qualifies Clare Boothe Luce for the title of “Woman of the Century.” Praise for Price of Fame “The twentieth-century history of this country, seen through the eyes and actions of a remarkable woman . . . one of the most fabulous, intimate biographies I have ever read.”—Liz Smith, Chicago Tribune “The epic Price of Fame is a thrilling account of one of the twentieth century's most intriguing and ambitious society figures.”—Amanda Foreman, bestselling author of Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire “Delicious . . . In Price of Fame . . . Sylvia Jukes Morris takes up the story she began in Rage for Fame. . . . Both books are models of the biographer’s art—meticulously researched, sophisticated, fair-minded and compulsively readable.”—Edward Kosner, The Wall Street Journal “Clare Boothe Luce [was] one of the twentieth century’s most ambitious, unstoppable and undeniably ingenious characters. . . . This full, warts-and-all biography hauls her back into the limelight and does her full justice.”—Janet Maslin, The New York Times “Poignant and profound . . . nothing short of a triumph.”—Marion Elizabeth Rodgers, The Washington Times “Compelling . . . [a] brilliant biography.”—Peter Tonguette, The Christian Science Monitor

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Rage for Fame: The Ascent of Clare Boothe Luce by Sylvia Jukes Morris. Paperback book in excellent condition.

The Ascent of Clare Boothe Luce

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
 
"Her technique was simple: aim for the top," an envious colleague wrote of Clare Boothe Luce. No American woman of the twentieth century aimed so accurately, or rose so far, as this legendary playwright, politician, and social seductress. Born in New York's Spanish Harlem, with nothing to recommend her but beauty, ferocious intelligence, and dry wit, she transformed herself into the youthful  managing editor of Vanity Fair. She married two millionaires and wrote three Broadway hits, including the biting satire, The Women. Her second husband, Henry Luce--the publisher of Time, Fortune, and later at her suggestion Life--was only one of the dozens of men she entranced. Adding politics and power to journalism and drama, Clare used sex, street smarts, acid humor, and money to plot a career more improbable than anything in her own fiction. Not content with mere wealth and the acclaim of transatlantic café society, Clare Boothe Luce confessed to a "rage for fame." This extraordinary book--the result of more than fifteen years of research by Sylvia Jukes Morris, her chosen biographer--tells how she achieved it.
 
Praise for Rage for Fame
 
"A model biography . . . the sort that only real writers can write."--Gore Vidal, The New Yorker
 
"[The] riveting first part of a two-volume biography . . . Relentlessly candid, meticulously documented, Morris's book traces [Clare Boothe] Luce's rocketing rise from illegitimacy and poverty to wealth, power and fame."--Hartford Courant
 
"Powerful and resonant, admiring at times, always critical, at times searing, but ultimately fair."--The Philadelphia Inquirer
 
"Crammed with enough drama for several mini-series."--The New York Times
 
"An important book about an important figure . . . a stunning feat of biography."--Forbes
 
"A dishy biography that is also a formidable work of research."--Slate
 
"One of those rare books where the reader dreads the final page."--Newport News Daily Press

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