I hope I shall have ambition until the day I die, Clare Boothe Luce told her biographer Sylvia Jukes Morris. the concluding volume of the life of an exceptionally brilliant polymath, chronicles Luces 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 Dal, 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. Luces 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.

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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,

The epic is a thrilling account of one of the twentieth century's most intriguing and ambitious society figures.Amanda Foreman, bestselling author of

Delicious . . . In Sylvia Jukes Morris takes up the story she began in Both books are models of the biographers artmeticulously researched, sophisticated, fair-minded and compulsively readable.Edward Kosner,

Clare Boothe Luce [was] one of the twentieth centurys 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,

Poignant and profound . . . nothing short of a triumph.Marion Elizabeth Rodgers,

Compelling . . . [a] brilliant biography.Peter Tonguette,

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