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The silver swan : in search of Doris Duke / Sallie Bingham.

by Bingham, Sallie, author.

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020.

Subjects

Duke, Doris, 1912-1993.

Celebrities -- United States -- Biography.

United States -- Biography.

ISBN:

9780374142599 (hardcover) :

0374142599 (hardcover) :

Description:

xiii, 316 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

A bold portrait of Doris Duke, the defiant and notorious tobacco heiress who was perhaps the greatest modern woman philanthropist. In The Silver Swan, Sallie Bingham chronicles one of the great underexplored lives of the twentieth century and the very archetype of the modern woman. "Don't touch that girl, she'll burn your fingers," FBI director J. Edgar Hoover once said about Doris Duke, the inheritor of James Buchanan Duke's billion-dollar tobacco fortune. During her lifetime, she would be blamed for scorching many, including her mother and various ex-lovers. She established her first foundation when she was twenty-one; cultivated friendships with the likes of Jackie Kennedy, Imelda Marcos, and Michael Jackson; flaunted interracial relationships; and adopted a thirty-two year-old woman she believed to be the reincarnation of her deceased daughter. This is also the story of the great houses she inhabited, including the classically proportioned limestone mansion on Fifth Avenue, the sprawling Duke Farms in New Jersey, the Gilded Age mansion Rough Point in Newport, Shangri La in Honolulu, and Falcon's Lair overlooking Beverly Hills. Even though Duke was the subject of constant scrutiny, little beyond the tabloid accounts of her behavior has been publicly known. In 2012, when eight hundred linear feet of her personal papers were made available, Sallie Bingham set out to probe her identity. She found an alluring woman whose life was forged in the Jazz Age, who was not only an early war correspondent but also an environmentalist, a surfer, a collector of Islamic art, a savvy businesswoman who tripled her father's fortune, and a major philanthropist with wide-ranging passions from dance to historic preservation to human rights. In The Silver Swan, Bingham is especially interested in dissecting the stereotypes that have defined Duke's story while also confronting the disturbing questions that cleave to her legacy.

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Location	Collection	Call No.	Copy	Status
Aina Haina Public Library	Adult Biography	B Duke Bi		Checked In	Add Copy to MyList
Hawaii State Library	Language, Literature & History	920.073 Duke Bi		Checked In	Add Copy to MyList
Hilo Public Library	Adult Biography	B Duke Bi		Checked In	Add Copy to MyList
Kahuku P/S Library	Adult Biography	B Duke Bi	Women's History Display/BIOGRAPHY	Checked In	Add Copy to MyList
Kailua-Kona Public Library	Adult Biography	B Duke Bi		Checked In	Add Copy to MyList
Kalihi-Palama Public Library	Adult Nonfiction	920.073 Duke Bi		Checked In	Add Copy to MyList
Lihue Public Library	Adult Nonfiction	920.073 Duke		Checked In	Add Copy to MyList
Manoa Public Library	Adult Biography	B Duke Bi		Checked In	Add Copy to MyList
Mililani Public Library	Adult Biography	B Duke Bi		Checked In	Add Copy to MyList
Salt Lake-Moanalua Public Library	Adult Biography	B Duke Bi		Checked In	Add Copy to MyList

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