Karen Heller commented in The Philadelphia Inquirer, "In this marvelous volume, Sylvia Jukes Morris has not just amassed information, but distilled it.

In The Wall Street Journal, Edward Kosner called Morris's effort "stellar";[2] Kirkus Reviews characterized it as an "evenhanded and intimate portrait.

Noting that Luce had left all of her papers—totaling 460,000 items—to the Library of Congress, King wrote, "I get the distinct feeling that Clare terrorized Morris into using every single thing in the archive."

King found Morris's approach "maniacally exacting" and, after enumerating examples that the author had afforded of Luce's clothing, jewelry, perfume, and party guests, wrote, "This is where your reviewer yelled SO WHAT!

"[4] "Morris is not great at stepping back and analyzing," wrote Maureen Dowd in The New York Times Book Review.

Her television credits include appearances on The American Experience, C-SPAN, the History Channel and a transatlantic literary symposium presented by the Paris Review and the English-Speaking Union.