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Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Inspired by the true story of tobacco billionairess Doris Duke and her gay butler, Bernard Lafferty, the film follows the development of their unorthodox friendship and love, until Duke ultimately wills her fortune to him.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xiii, 316 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
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...
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