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The Woman Who Knew Everyone: The Power of Perle Mesta, Washington's Most Famous Hostess

Gordon’s book is an easy read through her life, a tribute to the Perle we remember and a revelation of the one we never knew.
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Sympathetic and involving ... The biography doesn’t elide Mesta’s missteps, from her enthusiasm for former Nazi rocket scientist Wernher von Braun to her occasional style faux pas. But in the end, readers are likely to find Mesta as endearing as her many party guests did.
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Ushers readers in and out efficiently without lingering hangover ... On occasion she seems to exhaust even her biographer into mild syntactic blunder.
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