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Article: Peggy Guggenheim: a flair, flair, flair for life, life, life
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- February 16, 1986
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Peggy The Wayward Guggenheim. By Jacqueline Bograd Weld. Dutton.
$22.95.
From the truth-is-stranger-than fiction department comes this first
biography of the woman Isadora Duncan called "Guggie Peggleheim."
Little that "Guggie"/Peggy did in her 81 years (1898-1979) made sense
in conventional terms. Most of her day-to-day actions were
expressions of rebellion. Eccentricity - some would say lunacy -
thrived in her family. But it was ultimately Peggy who chose to go
public with her wildly undisciplined, erratic ways of achieving
success.
Her story would be too much to believe were it not that many of
the tales in this volume are well documented. And, best of all, we
have Peggy's ...