KINGMAKER Pamela Harriman's Astonishing Life of Power, Seduction, and Intrigue

Two new audiobooks--THE STALIN AFFAIR and now this full biography--present a fresh, sympathetic view of one of the last century's most intriguing and maligned figures, Pamela Digby Churchill Hayward Harriman. She was the daughter-in-law of Winston Churchill, the widow of the astronomically wealthy Averill Harriman, the lover of a legion of powerful men, the patron to a generation of liberal politicians--and arguably, says this author, "the most powerful courtesan in history." Judgments may vary, but what a life beautiful, smart, adventuresome Pamela Digby made for herself. Narrator Louise Brealey's high pitch might sound harsh to some ears, but she keeps up a brisk pace and delivers her narration without frills or melodrama. The result is interesting, to say the least. D.A.W. © AudioFile 2024, Portland, Maine [Published: OCTOBER 2024]