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A fascinating portrait of the Standard Oil heirerss and legendary American trendsetter Millicent RogersNobody knew how to live the high life like Millicent Rogers. Born into luxury, she lived in a whirl of beautiful homes, European vacations, exquisite clothing and handsome men. In Searching for Beauty, Cherie Burns chronicles Rogers's glittering life from her days as a young girl afflicted with rheumatic fever to her debutante debut and her Taos finale. A rebellious icon of the age, she eloped with a penniless baron, danced tangos in European nightclubs, divorced, remarried and romanced, among others, Clark Gable. Her romantic conquests, though, paled in comparison to her triumph in the fashion world where she electrified the fashionistas by becoming the muse to designer Charles James, appearing in Vogue and Harper's Bazaar and - at the end of her life - retreating to Taos, New Mexico where she popularized Southwestern style. With Searching for Beauty, Millicent Rogers enters the pantheon of great American women who, like Diana Vreeland and Babe Paley, put their distinctive stamp on American Style.

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As a notable jurist once said, "saying the same thing twice gives it no more weight." I found this book dull, repetitive and overwritten. I had to force myself to finish it. It was essentially a gossipy People magazine tribute elongated into a book overwrought by trivial details. How many times was it necessary to hear that to each house she rented, she brought her own sheets? More interesting to me would have been an explanation of how an estate worth an estimated 400 million dwindled down to $117,000 in thirty years. Clothing--even couture, just wasn't that expensive . . . And her children, what of her influence on their lives and character? And Millicent's brother, who was disowned in favor of Millicent's first-born son--what of him? Did she even feel guilty?The book, and Millicent had the potential of being interesting--one only knows authors have done significantly more with substantially less, but instead Millicent Rogers, for all the author's adulation, came across as superficial and one-dimensional. Passages were repetitive, and letters were recited at length which failed to support the point the author was trying to make. The prose was largely incoherent, and I found myself rereading paragraphs because the narrative didn't match the point it appeared the author was trying to make. Inexplicably, Millicent Rogers was portrayed as flightly on one page, while just the opposite was said the next. Rather than demonstrating aspects of her character, it was as if the author could not make up her mind as to what she thought of Ms. Rogers, with the result that instead of portraying a nuanced view of a complex woman, the book was unbalanced and incoherent and with it ones' impression of Ms. Rogers.Finally, according to the author, if there was anything to admire, it was Rogers sense of style. Indeed, she was regularly featured in Vogue, Bazaar and other publications and was as much an arbiter of taste and style as a collector. Yet not a single picture was provided. After all, a picture is worth a thousand words, and since the writing didn't offer much, the book would have benefited greatly had she done so. Not much of redeeming value here.

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