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"Read this book...You will spend time with, and get to know, one of the great creative figures of the twentieth century."
--Betty Comden, The New York Observer
"Loaded with juicy gossip...He succeeds in evoking Porter's white-tie-and-orchids set. When his wife, Linda, was asked why she seldom used the Rolls-Royce Porter gave her, she answered, 'It bruises my sables.'"
--Edward Karam, People
"A fine biography"
--David Walton, Philadelphia Inquirer
"Fascinating...engaging"
--Adrienne Miller, Esquire
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