Sonia Purnell.
SONIA PURNELL
KINGMAKER: PAMELA CHURCHILL HARRIMAN’S ASTONISHING LIFE OF SEDUCTION, INTRIGUE & POWER (2024)
Born (in xxxx) to an aristocratic landowning English family, Pamera Harriman led an extraordinary life. As a young woman she helped her father-in-law Winston Churchill draw the USA into the Second World War. Parting from Winston’s son Randolph, who was a compulsive drinker and gambler, she embarked on a spectaular series of marriages and affairs with powerful men.
These included US Ambassador Averall Harriman, Edward Murrow, Jock Whitney, Prince Aly Khan, Alfonso de Portago, Gianni Agnellie and Baron Elie de Rothschild.
She developed a career as an extremely influential Democratic political campaigner and hostess in Washington DC, where she played a key role in Bill Clinton’s rise to the US Presidency. He appointed her as US Ambassador to France in 1993.
The Financial Times described Sonia Purnell’s biography of Pamela Harriman as: 'Supremely enjoyable ... With a historian's eye for rigour, a journalist's for detail and a storyteller's for drama'.
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Sonia Purnell is a leading British biographer whose books have sold more than a million copies and have been translated in 23 languages. Her other subjects include Clementine Churchill, Boris Johnson, and Virginia Hall.
