Biography on pamela harriman churchill

Sally Bedell Smith. Simon & Schuster, $29.5 (496pp) ISBN 978-0-684-80950-2

In 1994, Christopher Ogden, employed by Pamela Digby Churchill Hayward Harriman to ghost her autobiography, published Life of the Party. When she balked at exposing the spicier side of her career, he went ahead on his own, using her taped interviews, but legally he could quote nothing. Smith, another unauthorized biographer, quotes little from Harriman, written or vocal, for similar reasons, but 400 of her acquaintances cooperated, resulting in a deeply informed and revelatory study. Smith (All His Glory: The Life of William S. Paley) has done further homework in financial and court papers and in the diaries, letters and memoirs of contemporaries. Had it not been for Ogden's preemptive strike, Smith's intensely detailed biography of the least sedate of American ambassadors--British-born Pamela Harriman, now 76, represents the U.S. in Paris--would be even more explosive. Perhaps only in France, where premiers and presidents often have publicly acknowledged mistresses, would she be acceptable, even admired, as an envoy. Bedding her way to wealth and power, the resourceful red-haired beauty wed Randolph Churchill, Leland Hayward and Averell Harrima

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Pamela Harriman: 'Churchill's secret weapon' in the fight against the Nazis

Penguin Random House

Winston Churchill's aristocratic daughter-in-law and confidante Pamela Harriman is considered "the greatest courtesan of her era". Decades after her death, she still divides opinion – was she a smart power player, or "shameless" and "repellent"?

You could call her by her six names: Pamela Beryl Digby Churchill Hayward Harriman – a British aristocrat who ended up a Washington power player and the US ambassador to France, having touched many famous lives in 20th-Century politics and culture. When she was just 20, her father-in-law Winston Churchill engaged her as "his most willing and committed secret weapon" (as a new biography puts it) and during World War Two she wined, dined and seduced important Americans, winning them over to the British cause against the Nazis. And later, her impact extended further, as she interacted with public figures including the Kennedys, Bill Clinton, Nelson Mandela and Truman Capote – who eventually satirised her in his fiction, alongside his other "swans". 

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More than 27 years have passed since Pamela Harriman suffered a fatal brain hemorrhage while s

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Pamela Harriman

English-American functionary and socialite (1920–1997)

Pamela Harriman
In office June 30, 1993 – February 5, 1997
President	Bill Clinton
Preceded by	Walter Curley
Succeeded by	Felix Rohatyn
Born	Pamela Beryl Digby (1920-03-20)March 20, 1920 Farnborough, County, England
Died	February 5, 1997(1997-02-05) (aged 76) Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
Resting place	Arden, an holdings near Harriman, Newborn York
Political party	Democratic
Spouses	Randolph Churchill ​ ​ (m. 1939; div. 1946)​ Leland Hayward ​ ​ (m. 1960; died 1971)​
Children	Winston
Relatives	Edward Digby (father) Edward Digby, Twelfth Baron Digby (brother)

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