{"product_id":"price-of-fame-sylvia-jukes-morris-9780804179706","title":"Price of Fame: The Honorable Clare Boothe Luce","description":"\"I hope I shall have ambition until the day I die,\" Clare Boothe Luce told her biographer Sylvia Jukes Morris. \u003ci\u003ePrice of Fame, \u003c\/i\u003e 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 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. 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.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003ePrice of Fame\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"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.\"\u003cb\u003e--Liz Smith, \u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"The epic \u003ci\u003ePrice of Fame\u003c\/i\u003e is a thrilling account of one of the twentieth century's most intriguing and ambitious society figures.\"\u003cb\u003e--Amanda Foreman, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eGeorgiana: Duchess of Devonshire\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Delicious . . . In \u003ci\u003ePrice of Fame . . . \u003c\/i\u003eSylvia Jukes Morris takes up the story she began in \u003ci\u003eRage for Fame. . . . \u003c\/i\u003eBoth books are models of the biographer's art--meticulously researched, sophisticated, fair-minded and compulsively readable.\"\u003cb\u003e--Edward Kosner, \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"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.\"\u003cb\u003e--Janet Maslin, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Poignant and profound . . . nothing short of a triumph.\"\u003cb\u003e--Marion Elizabeth Rodgers, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Compelling . . .  a] brilliant biography.\"\u003cb\u003e--Peter Tonguette, \u003ci\u003eThe Christian Science Monitor\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sylvia Jukes Morris\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0804179700\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780804179706\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Random House Trade\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/17\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 752\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.20w x 1.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/03\/2015 pg. 28","brand":"Sylvia Jukes Morris","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43947211849983,"sku":"9780804179706","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_f24d8552-e180-402a-a853-9f92d5d690b7.jpg?v=1681517388","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/price-of-fame-sylvia-jukes-morris-9780804179706","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}