Clare boothe luce biography book

  • In this definitive and very human biography, Stephen Shadegg captures the indefatigable spirit of America's Renaissance woman of the twentieth century -- Clare.
  • Rage for Fame recounts the story of the flowering years of Clare Booth Luce--a former congresswoman and editor of Vanity Fair--a striking woman.
  • Well written and well documented biography of a fascinating personality.

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    Clare Boothe Luce

    American author and politician (–)

    For the Broadway and movie actress, see Claire Luce.

    Clare Boothe Luce

    In office
    May 4, &#;– December 27,
    PresidentDwight D. Eisenhower
    Preceded byEllsworth Bunker
    Succeeded byJames David Zellerbach
    In office
    January 3, &#;– January 3,
    Preceded byLe Roy D. Downs
    Succeeded byJohn Lodge
    Born

    Ann Clare Boothe


    ()March 10,
    New York City, U.S.
    DiedOctober 9, () (aged&#;84)
    Washington, D.C., U.S.
    Political partyRepublican
    Spouses

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    Clare Boothe Luce (née&#;Ann Clare Boothe; March 10, [1][2] – October 9, ) was an American writer, politician, diplomat, and public conservative figure. A versatile author, she is best known for her hit play The Women, which had an all-female cast. Her writings extended from drama and screen scenarios to fiction,

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    Rage for Fame: The Ascent of Clare Boothe Luce

    July 31,
    Rage For Fame by Sylvia Jukes Morris

    BIBLIOGRAPHIC DETAILS
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    (Film: No).

    SERIES
    Clare Booth Luce, Volume I

    SUMMARY/ EVALUATION:
    -SELECTION: I read/listened to the second volume, and during the course of that discovered it was Volume II, which compelled me to read Volume
    -ABOUT: This part I of a two-volume set on the life of Clare Booth Luce, focuses on her youth, her mother, the romantic lives of both, other acquaintances of

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    THE LIFE OF THE EXTRAORDINARY CLARE BOOTHE LUCE

    But how I got into it fryst vatten now the subject. I feel sometimes that you don't choose the subject, that they in some strange way choose you. I had finished a biography, actually, of Edith Kermit Roosevelt, who was the second wife of Theodore Roosevelt. I was looking for another subject and I keep a file on people who interest me. inom still do it, actually; it's a sort of habit that I have. 

    NIGEL HAMILTON:  We'll ask you later who's in the file. 

    SYLVIA JUKES MORRIS:  Who's in the file, exactly. My husband always says, "Let me see the paper before you've cut it into pieces." 

    Something literally dropped out, an article dropped out. I picked it up, and it was an interview with Clare Luce, written up in the New York Sunday Times Magazine of , when her play, her most famous play, as Nigel already said, was revived on Broadway. And so, of course, she was very much back in the public domain; she was 70 years