Photo by Cecil Beaton. Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Archives, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina Doris Duke, posing with her sphinx smile, one long bare arms decorated with a three-strand pearl bracelet, her hands artfully posed one over the other—this is an image…
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The Silver Swan Sails Again
…art), Rough Point at Newport, The Newport Restoration Association, Duke Farms in New Jersey, and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. I knew from the start I would have my work cut out for me. There was already plenty of rumor afoot, leading to the creation of some accounts that focused…
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Legacy of Harm
…who adored her, with his role as the perfector of machine-rolled cigarettes and chief publicist for their worldwide spread? How to justify her money, even though it allowed her to create the Center for Islamic Studies in Hawaii and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation—among many other contributions The painful struggles…
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I Want It to Be Said
…slowly deciding how best to use her money not only for her own pleasure and satisfaction but for the public good. The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation is only the most visible fruit of her lifelong development of her purpose. I have spent more than six years on this biography because…
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Kentucky Foundation for Women on “Connections” – KET
…marks the 30th anniversary of the Kentucky Foundation for Women, the non-profit organization founded by writer Sallie Bingham to support feminist artists who seek to create positive social change. Bingham, who is the daughter of former Louisville Courier-Journal owner Barry Bingham Sr., was inspired to create the foundation after she…
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The Silver Swan: In Search of Doris Duke
Changing the title of my biography of Doris Duke, especially after more than six years of work, is a big deal. From the beginning, I’ve called it Doris Duke: The Invention of the New Woman, a title with gravitas that also links her to the reinterpretation of women’s roles that…
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What Was Cut
Doris Duke Swimming (Doris Duke Photograph Collection, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University) April 7, 2020, will welcome my long-awaited biography of Doris Duke, The Silver Swan: In Search of Doris Duke into the world with a launch and reading at Garcia Street Books here in…
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Doris Duke and the Sea
…her mother’s generation. Readers of my forthcoming biography, The Silver Swan: In Search of Doris Duke will notice, as I did, how little “outdoors” there was in her childhood. For Doris, her mother, and their peers, “outdoors” would have meant sedate strolls in city parks (for Doris, this was New…
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Doris Duke’s Death
…have not insured that anyone remembers Doris’ grandfather, Washington Duke, his son, her father, James Buchanan Duke, or her generous haunted uncle, Ben. Tombs never enshrine anything except their occupants’ sense of their own importance, and it seems to me that Doris was never sure of her own importance. For…
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A Brief History of the Kentucky Foundation for Women and Hopscotch House
The Hopscotch House, Louisville, KY. Photo: Kentucky Foundation for Women. In 1985, I decided to use ten million dollars from the proceeds of my sale of my minority interest in the Bingham companies to finance a not-for-profit foundation for the benefit of Kentucky women. I was aware from my years…
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