Sallie discusses Doris Duke’s life and legacy (44 minutes). Recorded Fall of 2019 in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Skip to Doris Duke’s Silence (at 2 minutes) Skip to Doris Duke’s Philanthropy (at 9 minutes) Skip to Doris Duke’s Properties (at 20 minutes) Skip to Doris Duke’s Legacy (at 35 minutes)…
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Doris Duke’s Legacy
…support of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation which gave me the permission to look at Doris Duke’s big archives which she left to Duke University in 1993 when she died. Doris Duke’s Silence Doris Duke for complicated reasons did not write herself. There are only a few letters from her…
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The Silver Swan: In Search of Doris Duke
…Duke Charitable Foundation which gave me the permission to look at Doris Duke’s big archives which she left to Duke University in 1993 when she died. It’s 800 linear feet… it was put at my disposal with only a very few restrictions and that is really the basis of my…
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The Silver Swan: In Search of Doris Duke
…people are so much watched—even admired—and the questions of what they actually contribute to their society are crucial questions—crucial questions—because they have so much power. To learn more about Doris Duke’s life, philanthropy, properties and legacy, please watch Doris Duke’s Legacy or visit the Doris Duke page on this site….
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Vindication
Doris Duke, most likely taken at Duke Farms, 1920-1930 (Doris Duke Photograph Collection, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University) Headlined in newspapers across the country, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation’s grant of 1.6 million dollars to pay for the digitalization of thousands of tape-recorded oral histories…
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Doris Duke in Pictures and the Deconstruction of the Past
…its contents were auctioned after her death, the proceeds going like the rest of her estate to the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. Now the Foundation’s directors with a boldness that would have tickled Doris have decided to blow the vast monster mansion up. Neighbors are protesting, as neighbors always protest…
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The Silver Swan: In Search of Doris Duke
A bold portrait of Doris Duke, the defiant and notorious tobacco heiress who was perhaps the greatest modern woman philanthropist. The Silver Swan: In Search of Doris Duke The first serious literary biography of a complex woman, the greatest woman philanthropist of the twentieth century, based on her extensive archive…
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The Uses of Scandal
First Step Toward Writing a Biography of Doris Duke From the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Archives Beginning research for a new biography feels to me like stepping, with one bare toe, into a puddle of icy water. What will I find? What will I not find? What will I learn,…
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These Small Blessings
…a grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation that paid for graduate school in a field connected to conservation—always one of Doris’ aims for her foundation, created through her will, and now with an endowment of more than a billion dollars. Covid crushed my biography, The Silver Swan: In Search…
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Doris Duke is Born
…wearing, in honor of her mother, who loaned or gave them to her. Like all of Nanaline Duke’s jewelry, these had been given to her by James Buchanan Duke, her husband and Doris’ devoted father. I hope to dismantle or at least question the assumption that Doris and Nanaline were…
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