In her time she was the most powerful woman in the Western World. She was not afraid to use her feminine powers in ways that today, would be considered politically incorrect. She was highly educated and sophisticated, the richest woman of her time and her story wold be the subject of propaganda and revisionism. She was Cleopatra and although her story takes place over two thousand years ago, many of her life themes are as contemporary as today’s headlines. Pulitzer Prize winning biographer Stacy Schiff's best selling biography Cleopatra: A Life
captures it all as if she were there.My conversation with Stacy Schiff:
