User talk:Edmundm

While the Wikipedia article on the writer, politician, and diplomat Clare Boothe Luce (whose name is frequently misspelled, and confused with that of her exact contemporary, the actress Claire Luce) is basically correct in most particulars as of July 8, 2012, its skimpy text does not convey the extent and complexity of this woman's remarkable life. The information therein suffers from lack of documentation, and is in some instances incorrect. CBL was not, for example, the keynote speaker at the 1944 Republican National Convention (Governor Earl Warren had that honor). Nor was she the first woman ever to address such a convention: Corinne Roosevelt Robinson did so at the GOP meet in 1920. CBL's other accomplishments, nevertheless, justify a substantial amplification of her Wikipedia entry. The present editor has done so, adding many verifiable citations, most notably to the first volume of the authorized biography of Clare Boothe Luce by Sylvia Jukes Morris, which is unaccountably missing from the "Sources" section of the previous Wikipedia article. The volume is entitled Rage for Fame: The Ascent of Clare Boothe Luce (Random House, New York, 1997) and represents fourteen years of original archival research, as well as close personal acquaintance between author and subject. A second and concluding volume of Sylvia Jukes Morris's biography, covering the years 1943-1987, will be published in 2013 by Random House. Some material from this work in progress has been incorporated into the CBL Wikipedia entry by the present editor, who has had access to the manuscript.