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050	0	0	_aE748.L894 _bM67 1997
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100	1		_aMorris, Sylvia Jukes
245	1	0	_aRage for fame _b: the ascent of Clare Boothe Luce _c/ Sylvia Jukes Morris.
250			_a1st ed.
260			_aNew York _b: Random House _c, c1997.
300			_a561 p. _b: ill. _c; 25 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 489-492) and index.
520			_aIn many ways the regal Clare Boothe Luce was an American parallel to Pamela Ashby Churchill Harriman, a beauty relentlessly on the make for men, money, and power. Yet Luce was more brainy and better educated, and perhaps more hungry for celebrity because she came from far lower circumstances. Her father was a violinist who was seldom able to make his living by his bow. Her mother, who never married William Boothe, was a call girl and kept woman. In the first half of what will be a two-volume life, Morris describes how the future congresswoman and second wife of Time magazine founder Henry Luce, bedded her way upward while career-climbing in New York journalism and writing a stage mega-hit, The Women, which was made into a popular film in 1939. By 1942--at age 39--she turned to politics and was elected a Republican representative from Connecticut. Granted exclusive access to Luce's papers--460,000 items--in the Library of Congress before her subject's death in 1987, Morris has mined them for Luce's self-absorbed appetites. Unbewitched by her subject's aura, she describes "the corrosion of a personality denied the power that she felt born, if not qualified, to exercise." In a foreshadowing of the next volume, the author reveals that in later years, Luce's closest soul mate is to be Wallis Simpson, the Duchess of Windsor.
600	1	0	_aLuce, Claire Booth
650		0	_aAmbassadors _z--United States _v--Biography
650			_aWomen legislators _z-United States _v--Biography
650		4	_aDramatists, American _y-20th century _v--Biography
650			_aJournalists _z-United States _v--Biography
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