Book description
“A thorough account of Harriman’s rise which also manages to be a brisk, twisty read … riveting and revelatory.” —The New Yorker
“a must-read book of Fall 2024” —People Magazine
“Rigorous but rollicking.” —The New York Times
From the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of A WOMAN…
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2 authors picked Kingmaker as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This was my recommendation for our book club this year. An excellent choice--everyone loved it.
This is another wonderful book from Sonia Purnell, biographer of a range of interesting, controversial and unusual political and social figures. This book is a biography of Pamela Churchill Harriman, a British-American 'high society' figure who is difficult to categorize. The book does a great job of exposing and criticizing the culture and structure of transatlantic elite society, while also being sympathetic to its main subject. I struggled to relate to Pamela in any way, but I greatly enjoyed her story and I learned an enormous amount about elites, wealth, gender and power. Purnell characterizes her as an important and…
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