Was She the Greatest Kingmaker of the 20th Century?

Was She the Greatest Kingmaker of the 20th Century?

In the middle of a transatlantic flight this weekend, I stumbled across a review by former New Yorker editor Tina Brown—of the new(ish) biography all her friends on both sides of the Atlantic seem to be reading. It’s about the wild life of Pamela Harriman, the daughter-in-law of Winston Churchill, who fed the White House’s secrets to the British prime minister by sleeping with visiting American emissaries. Later in life, Harriman elevated the yo…