Reflected Glory: The Life of Pamela Churchill Harriman.
Smith, Sally Bedell.
Place Published: New York:
Publisher: Simon & Schuster,
Date Published: 1997.
Description: TRADE PAPERBACK. FIRST EDITION. 559 pages with index and 28 pages of black and white photographs. The book, in illustrated wrapper, is FINE/AS NEW (UNREAD). NOT reamindered. JMVINTAGE specializes in Books, Magazines and Treasures related to the Duke and Duchess of Windsor....and other curious people. Dust Jacket Reads: On the basis of more than 800 interviews with 400 sources, many of them intimates of Pamela Harriman, as well as extensive archival researh that included numerous diaries and letters, Sally Bedell Smith, one of America's leading biographers, strips away the mythology and reconstructs the life of an extraordinary woman who used her cunning, hard work, and beauty to secure a place in the world of power and wealth,and transform herself into a woman of geniune achievement. Long a controversial and elusive figure, Pamela Harriman is explained for the first time in a serious biography. English debutane Pamela Digby first came into the public eye when she married Churchill's dissolute son Randolph. While he was overseas in World War II, she had an affair with Averell Harriman, the fisrt in a line of wealthy and prominent men-including Jock Whitney, Prince Aly Khan, Gianni Agnelli, Elie de Rothschild, and Stavros Niarchos-who supported her over the next two decades. She found legitimacy as the wife of Broadway producer Leland Hayward and became wealthy when she married Harriman on the eve of his eightieth birthday. At age of sixty she reinvented herself as a kingmaker in the Democratic Party, and more than a decade later was rewarded with an appointment as U.S.Ambassador to France.
Binding: Trade PaperbackCondition: Fine in Wraps
ISBN: 0684835630
Book Id: 17521
Price: $14.00
