No Regrets

Synopsis

Marietta Tree's life lights a path through three quarters of a century of history, politics, and people. She was a witness to the last years of FDR, the founding of the United Nations, and the development of an urban conscience, as the beleaguered cities of the United States struggled for survival. She knew Winston Churchill and Marilyn Monroe, mixed with British royalty and inner-city blacks, gave legendary parties, and was an extraordinary beauty.Caroline Seebohm chronicles the life of this remarkable woman, beginning with her birth in 1917 to one of Boston's most respected families and ending with her sudden, shocking death from breast cancer in 1991. Her romance with director John Huston...the intense involvement with the wealthy, worldly Ronald Tree that caused both of them to leave their mates and marry each other...her passionate affair with Adlai Stevenson...her activism as one of the first feminists...her work for civil rights and the poor and disenfranchised -- the story of Marietta Tree's rich, full life is filled with the names of the famous and powerful with whom she shared the spotlight, and played out against the political and social upheavals of 20th-century America and England.