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Great Dames : what I learned from older women

Title
Great Dames : what I learned from older women / Marie Brenner.
Author
Brenner, Marie.
Publication
New York : Crown, [2000], ©2000.

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Description
248 pages : portraits; 25 cm
Summary
  • "In Great Dames, Marie Benner introduces us to a pantheon of women whose lives are both gloriously individual and yet somehow universal. Her subjects range from Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, who found happiness in her last decade, to Constance Baker Motley, who argued Brown versus the Board of Education before the United States Supreme Court, to Luise Rainer, who won two Academy Awards by age thirty, then fled Hollywood for good.
  • We meet Kitty Carlisle Hart, a professional charmer and tireless advocate of the arts, and Diana Trilling, the intellectual's intellectual, who published her final, splendid memoir at age ninety-one. There are even the Becky Sharps, who maneuvered powerful men to help them ascend: Marietta Tree, Pamela Harriman, and Clare Boothe Luce. And the wonderfully flamboyant Kay Thompson, whose pint-sized creation, Eloise, gave her a place in American cultural history.
  • Finally, there is Thelma Brenner, who was the first great dame her daughter ever knew." "These are women who helped shape a century. Marie Brenner's portraits are intimate, vivid, and true, and full of subtle but important lessons. The way the great dames lived their lives - their rules, their codes, their insistence on certain fundamentals - are models that today's women should consider as they ascend to positions of leadership in a new millennium."--BOOK JACKET.
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Contents
They Were Outstanding -- Kitty Carlisle Hart -- Constance Baker Motley -- Marietta Tree -- Diana Trilling -- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis -- Kay Thompson -- Clare Boothe Luce -- Luise Rainer -- Pamela Harriman -- Thelma Brenner.
ISBN
0609606123
LCCN
99045585
OCLC
ocm42391540
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries