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BOOKS . . . RAGE FOR FAME: THE ASCENT OF CLARE BOOTHE LUCE: She may be only one of history?s footnotes now, but in her heyday Clare Boothe Luce was, after Eleanor Roosevelt, the most talked-about woman in America. TIME Critic John Elson writes that Boothe seemingly had it all: she was a headlining journalist (for Life and the original Vanity Fair); a successful playwright (?The Women?); a two-term Congresswoman from Connecticut; and later U.S. ambassador to Italy. She had a merciless wit and stunning looks to go with her smarts. Drawing on interviews with family, friends and Luce herself...
...John Elson...
...diseases that attack these systems. As Nuland sees it, the surgeon?s role is to assist the body in mounting a concerted defense against the intruders, be they cancerous cells or traumatic injuries. "Nuland generally writes with a clarity that any journalist can envy," says TIME's John Elson. "Still, the eyelids of the scientifically challenged may droop a bit amid the book?s vital but unlyrical nuts-and-bolts background passages...
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