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...program has been supported by a great from the Henry Luce Foundation, in memory of Roy E. Larsen '21, a professor at the Ed School who died two years...
NONFICTION: After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection, James Davidson and Mark Lytle∙Clare Boothe Luce, Wilfrid Sheed∙How to Make War, James F. Dunnigan The Imperial Rockefeller, Joseph E. Peisico∙Mrs. Harris: The Death of the Scarsdale Diet Doctor, Diana Trilling∙Scenes of Childhood, Sylvia Townsend Warner
With good reason. A generation before the movement, Clare Boothe Luce displayed more ambition than Gloria Steinem put together. She led more serial lives and enjoyed more careers than an amalgam of Jane Fonda, Betty Friedan and Sandra Day O'Connor...
...world that most women were scared even to enter." As to what she is not-including the "bitch" her enemies accused her of being-Sheed is less sure. She is not "a heartless schemer," she is not a "cold climber." Certainly she is not just "Luce's woman." In the end, all he can do is shrug and quote his subject: " 'Do not defend me' is almost her heraldic motto, and I'll do my best...
Thus the Clare Boothe Luce who emerges in this lively, shrewd, indulgent book is, sui generis, a complicated and brilliant woman who has more or less equally enjoyed LSD and scuba diving and her honorary status as general in the U.S. Army. Sheed's book is complicated too. It is not, he ultimately concedes, a biography at all. Maybe, he suggests, "Notes on a Career" will...