anchor: Morris has written a model biography of a woman who, if born a man, could easily have been a President, says Luce's friend Gore Vidal in The New Yorker . Reviews dwell on the book's dishy detail, derived from Luce's diaries.
positive: Gore Vidal wrote in the New Yorker about how the book is a model biography of a woman who could have been president.
negative: Morris's book is a pure fiction about a woman who was woefully inadequate in every way, says Gore Vidal in the National Review.