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  • Reflected Glory: The Life of Pamela Churchill Harriman

    Sally Bedell Smith. Simon & Schuster, $ (pp) ISBN

    In , 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 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

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  • Kingmaker: Pamela Churchill Harriman's astonishing life of seduction, intrigue and power, from the bestselling author of A Woman of No Importance

    The sensationally gripping and revelatory biography of Pamela Churchill Harriman, one of the most influential women in 20th century politics, from the bestselling author of A Woman of No Importance

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    Pamela Harriman

    English-American diplomat and socialite (–)

    Pamela Harriman

    In office
    June 30, &#;– February 5,
    PresidentBill Clinton
    Preceded byWalter Curley
    Succeeded byFelix Rohatyn
    Born

    Pamela Beryl Digby


    ()March 20,
    Farnborough, Hampshire, England
    DiedFebruary 5, () (aged&#;76)
    Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
    Resting placeArden, an estate near
    Harriman, New York
    Political partyDemocratic
    Spouses

    Randolph Churchill

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    ChildrenWinston
    RelativesEdward Digby (father)
    Edward Digby, 12th Baron Digby (brother)

    Pamela Beryl Harriman (néeDigby; March 20, &#; February 5, ), also known as Pamela Churchill Harriman, was an English political activist for the Democratic Party, diplomat, and socialite. She married three times: her first husband was Randolph Churchill, the son of prime mini