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|a Gordon, Meryl,
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|a The woman who knew everyone :
|b the power of Perle Mesta, Washington's most famous hostess /
|c Meryl Gordon.
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|a Power of Perle Mesta, Washington's most famous hostess
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|a ix, 485 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ;
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|a Introduction : Broadway bound -- A Texas/Oklahoma upbringing -- The man of steel : George Mesta -- Starting over -- Oklahoma, revisited -- acts of rebellion -- Two-party Perle -- The moon, the stars and all the planets -- The Entertainer-in-Chief -- Democratic Party stalwart -- Dewey beats Truman? -- Just reward, or government by crony? -- Advise and consent -- Lost and found in Luxembourg -- Call me madam -- I like Ike -- Divided loyalties -- Goodbye without leaving -- From royalty to Russia -- There's no place like home -- Have passport, will travel -- The world traveler recovers -- Windy City blues : the party must go on -- Fly me to the moon. -- All the way (or not at all) with LBJ -- A house is not a home -- Alone again -- Blame it on the Frug -- Tumultuous times -- A world turned upside down -- Never give up : a feminist in her eighties -- The octogenarian jetsetter -- "Perle, you're an event in the life of America."
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|a "Perle Mesta was a force to be reckoned with. In her heyday - the 1940's, 50's and 60's - this extremely wealthy globe-trotting Washington widow was one of the most famous women in America, garnering as much media attention as Eleanor Roosevelt. Renowned for her world-class parties featuring politicians and celebrities, she was very close to three presidents - Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower and Lyndon Johnson. After Truman named her as the first female envoy to Luxembourg, Irving Berlin wrote an entire hit musical based on Perle's life - "Call Me Madam" - which starred Ethel Merman, ran on Broadway for two years and later became a movie. Dubbed by Berlin as the "hostess with the mostess'," Perle inherited serious money (Texas oil) and married even more money (a Pittsburgh steel magnate). She had a rollicking life outside of Washington, befriending such Broadway legends as Merman, Angela Lansbury and Pearl Bailey. She also had a serious side. A pioneering supporter of the Equal Rights Amendment dating to the 1930's and influential champion for working women, she was a prodigious Democratic fundraiser and rescued Harry Truman's financially flailing 1948 campaign. In this intensely researched biography, author Meryl Gordon chronicles Perle's lavish life and society adventures in Newport, Manhattan and Washington while highlighting her important, but nearly forgotten contribution to American politics and the feminist movement"--
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|a Mesta, Perle,
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