Clare Boothe Luce

Offers a concise and highly readable political biography that examines the life of one of the most accomplished American women of the 20th century that fills a gap in the history of conservative women.Suitable for courses on US Foreign Relations and Cold War history, US Women's History, women in politics.Brings a much needed gendered component to foreign policy scholarship and political history more generally and echoes the prominence of gender issues in the current political debate and raises big questions about feminism, women in politics, and US foreign relations.