A Life
EXCELLENT
Stacy Schiff, who won the Pulitzer Prize for her biography Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) (1999) has also written acclaimed biographies of Saint-Exupery and Benjamin Franklin.
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THE TOPIC: The Cleopatra portrayed in the 1963 Elizabeth Taylor/Richard Burton movie was an intriguing, dark beauty, the seductive consort of powerful Roman rulers. Stacy Schiff dispels many of the myths portrayed in film and literature to recast the last queen of Egypt as a shrewd political strategist who, for a time, successfully navigated a world dominated by the power-hungry Romans. Far from a ravishing beauty, Cleopatra used her cunning and wit to solidify her grip on the throne. A product of incest, she …
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