Being governor of New York is one of the most high-profile positions in American politics. There was a time when holding that job made one an instant potential candidate for president. Longtime Port ...
Top men in the Harriman camp are Tammany Hall Boss Carmine De Sapio, who digs in the delegate-rich fields of the East; Sam Rosenman, onetime Roosevelt and Truman speechwriter, who serves as idea man ...
Historian Katz debuts with a vivid and revealing account of the backstage roles played by the daughters of Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union W. Averell ...
Candidate Averell Harriman, who had been taking political instruction from his managers until 2 a.m., climbed out of bed at 7 o’clock one morning last week in his elegant Manhattan town house. He ...
On the C-SPAN Networks: W. Averell Harriman was an Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs in the Department of State with one video in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance ...
"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." The life of Pamela Harriman (above, with her third husband Averell Harriman and Jackie Kennedy Onassis in ...
They were sleek pillars of the Washington establishment, skilled at image-making and wise to the ways of power. So why did Pamela Harriman and Clark Clifford invest millions of dollars with men like ...
I learned much about politics from George Metzger. As Republican chairman of the county commissioners, affable George loved to talk inside baseball with me in his Doylestown office. I recall his quip ...