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Her second husband, Henry Luce--the publisher of \u003ci\u003eTime, Fortune, \u003c\/i\u003eand later at her suggestion \u003ci\u003eLife\u003c\/i\u003e--was only one of the dozens of men she entranced. Adding politics and power to journalism and drama, Clare used sex, street smarts, acid humor, and money to plot a career more improbable than anything in her own fiction. Not content with mere wealth and the acclaim of transatlantic caf  society, Clare Boothe Luce confessed to a rage for fame. This extraordinary book--the result of more than fifteen years of research by Sylvia Jukes Morris, her chosen biographer--tells how she achieved it. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eRage for Fame\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A model biography . . . the sort that only real writers can write.\u003cb\u003e--Gore Vidal, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  The] riveting first part of a two-volume biography . . . 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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 Dalí, 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.\"\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003ePrice of Fame\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\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\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\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\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \"Delicious . . . 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