Product Description: "I hope I shall have ambition until the day I die," Clare Boothe Luce told her biographer Sylvia Jukes Morris. Price of Fame, 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...read more

Previously unpublished letters and diaries are used to portray the life of Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt and to assess the mark that she left as first lady. (view table of contents)

An intimate biography of Clare Booth Luce draws on Luce's private papers, letters, and diary to trace her life from childhood, through her ambitious rise to success, to 1943, as her marriage to Henry Luce is breaking up and she is elected to Congress. 50,000 first printing. (view table of contents)