former home of franklin and eleanor roosevelt where i think it is probably safe to assume that clare boothe luce was not a regular social visitor. [laughter] mrs. luce's relationship with the roosevelts was, one might say, complicated. she was an early supporter of fdr but soon became one of his most outspoken critics, once famously accusing him of being the only american president who ever lied us into a war because he did not have the political courage to lead us into it. her relationship with eleanor roosevelt, with whom she was in regular competition for most popular woman in the u.s., was perhaps more nuanced. like mrs. roosevelt, she had overcome the disadvantages of her childhood to become a self-made woman who was well ahead of her time with successful and highly visible careers in multiple fields, politics, journalism and diplomacy. she may have disagreed with much of mrs. roosevelt's philosophy, but as early as 1948 she was recommending that truman ask her to be his running mate. and for her part, eleanor roosevelt publicly praised her appointment as ambassador to italy writing that mr

clare booth luce by sylvia do smores. "price of fame" is the second in a two-volume biography of ms. luce. the first volume was published 17 years ago, and as "the wall street journal" has written, both books are really models of a biographer's art, meticulously researched, sophisticated, fair-minded and compulsively readable. now, we are, of course, gathered for tonight's discussion here in the former home of franklin and eleanor roosevelt where i think it is probably safe to assume that clare boothe luce was not a regular social visitor. [laughter] mrs. luce's relationship with the roosevelts was, one might say, complicated. she was an early supporter of fdr but soon became one of his most outspoken critics, once famously accusing him of being the only american president who ever lied us into a war because he did not have the political courage to lead us into it. her relationship with eleanor roosevelt, with whom she was in regular competition for most popular woman in the u.s., was perhaps more nuanced. like mrs. roosev

nixon wrote his memoir, he said the one person who could have been president as a woman was clare boothe luce. she had all the qualifications. >> near that same quote, you say that clare's sons from a former marriage, is that the same william hurt in the movies? >> hank luce married his second wife, a woman who had been married to mr. hurt. she had two sons. it was william who went on to be the great movie star. i think he is fantastic actually. he became her step grandson i suppose. >> have you got another book you are writing? >> no, i spent the whole year finishing this one. now i am on the road publicizing it. that will go on more or less to the year. >> you have another book you think you want to write? >> not so far. my theory about biography is that the subject finds you. it happened with my husband several times and happened to me both times too. my two books, it was a wonderful accident of history have it came about. >> how did edith roosevelt's biography start with you? >> my husband was writing about theodore roosevelt. when i was helping him type on the old typewriters, i said, yo

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they talk about margaret higgins, for example. >> harker adrian and clare booth luce for big advocates >> it's interesting. i think we're living in a time where we see more interesting layout or fees written by political figures and particularly from asia that we've seen. there is a really interesting biography last year written by the woman who wrote wild swans. it seems like there's a different generation of women who've come of age after the victories of feminism, offering very different as that would not have been available 30, 40 years ago. so that is wonderful. i think it's a terrific book. very happy to been able to read it. does anyone have any questions in the audience? i think we have a microphone. yes. >> hi, you talked a little bit about how deronmadame nhu's recollections might have been colored in how you dealt with the unreliability of the source for your working on the project. >> it's a great question. madame nhu was an unreliable character. and writing a book, i chose sort of the unorthodox path of putting the elf in the book because i wanted to be someone who could s

they talk about margaret higgins, for example. >> harker adrian and clare booth luce for big advocates >> it's interesting. i think we're living in a time where we see more interesting layout or fees written by political figures and particularly from asia that we've seen. there is a really interesting biography last year written by the woman who wrote wild swans. it seems like there's a different generation of women who've come of age after the victories of feminism, offering very different as that would not have been available 30, 40 years ago. so that is wonderful. i think it's a terrific book. very happy to been able to read it. does anyone have any questions in the audience? i think we have a microphone. yes. >> hi, you talked a little bit about how deronmadame nhu's recollections might have been colored in how you dealt with the unreliability of the source for your working on the project. >> it's a great question. madame nhu was an unreliable character. and writing a book, i chose sort of the unorthodox path of putting the elf in the book because i wanted to be someone who could s

that rung a bell to me, so i thought i'd might note and i said i see here she wrote a letter to clare booth luceto this address goes to the eiffel tower. i will go there and see if i can anger. this is when i thought there was no way i'd ever get her to talk to me. >> this is around 2005. >> around 2005. >> i go to this address. it is only eight euros high. i totally missed database. a sort of look around paris and i realize all the building in paris or in fact really love mfn looking for 12 or a building i won't have to go very far. >> it's like washington d.c. there's limits on how high buildings can be built. it really sticks out. >> it does. so i started walking around paris among literally knocking on doors every building i was high enough. i got to the concierge said there's an older vietnamese woman live here. i wasn't sure what name she was going by. she said no, she doesn't live here. she was next-door. so that was how i found her. i was writing her letters and asking her to tell your story, trying to pitch it as they let me sort of did this in a scholarly way. what ended up happening w

. >> sylvia jukes morris, your second book on clare boothe luce starts where? >> in 1952, i don't know what month that was but in november of 1952, eisenhower appointed her ambassador to italy. she had always wanted a position like that because she loved italy. she had been there many times. she had been during the war and also as a tourist. the book doesn't begin there. the last book ended where she was elected to congress. the current book describes her arrival at union station in january of 1943 as a representative from connecticut. >> why is clare boothe luce

and our primetime programming concludes with a book on clare booth luce. that happens tonight on booktv. >> as booktv continues its tour of the new york public library, we are joined by isaac gewirtz. what do you do at the library? >> i am curator of the henry w. and albert a berg collection american literature. i worked in the library in the past in the rare book division. i worked as a curator at southern methodist university and downtown as well and i've had all of that led to my being here. >> how long have you been with the new york public library? >> as a curator i've been here since september of 2000. >> you have brought some things out to show us. >> yes, it's an enormous collection and there's lots of printed items and this is what i'd i like to call the tip of the iceberg. here we have the only surviving manuscript of what he has done in his own lifetime. it's not in his hand but in the hand of his personal assistant and this has the highest authority directly from his own manuscript. and you can see changes and differences between the text is re

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she discusses her recent book, price of fame: the honorable clare boothe luce," which is her second volume on the notable politician, socialite, writer and diplomat who lived from 1903 to 1987. >> i suffered no disillusion because i have no illusions