She sat for 50 hours of interviews, the journalist Sonia Purnell reports in a rigorous but rollicking new book, “Kingmaker,” and gave Ogden a key to her house on N Street in Georgetown.

Margaret Talbot reviews “Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman’s Astonishing Life of Power, Seduction and Intrigue,” by Sonia Purnell.

But she was far more than a racy caricature, according to Sonia Purnell’s “Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman’s Astonishing Life of Power, Seduction, and Intrigue.” ...

In “Kingmaker,” Sonia Purnell revisits the life, and many loves, of a Brit who energized dispirited Democrats in the age of Reagan.

Sonia Purnell’s biography of Pamela Harriman, Winston Churchill’s daughter-in-law, doesn’t omit the seedier side of her story, ... Kingmaker is a book that has to take sex seriously.

KINGMAKER by Sonia Purnell (Virago £25, 528pp) Kingmaker is available now from the Mail Bookshop. Was 19-year-old debutante Pamela Digby’s snap decision to accept Randolph Churchill’s ...

“At certain points,” says Sonia Purnell, the author of the new book Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman’s Astonishing Life of Power, Seduction, and Intrigue, ...

Sonia Purnell is the author of the forthcoming book “Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman’s Astonishing Life of Power, Seduction, and Intrigue,” from which this piece is adapted.

Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman's Astonishing Life of Power, Seduction, and Intrigue . By Sonia Purnell. Viking. 528 pages. We may earn a commission when you buy products through the links on our site.