Episodes

  • PREVIEW: PAMELA HARRIMAN: Author Sonia Purnell, "Kingmaker," explains how Pamela Harriman was coached on how to present herself as an N Street fundraiser for the Democratic Party by the young promising Bill Clinton. More tonight.

    PREVIEW: PAMELA HARRIMAN: Author Sonia Purnell, "Kingmaker," explains how Pamela Harriman was coached on how to present herself as an N Street fundraiser for the Democratic Party by the young promising Bill Clinton. More tonight.
    Jan 3 2025
    PREVIEW: PAMELA HARRIMAN: Author Sonia Purnell, "Kingmaker," explains how Pamela Harriman was coached on how to present herself as an N Street fundraiser for the Democratic Party by the young promising Bill Clinton. More tonight.
    1923 Washington
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    3 mins
  • PREVIEW: RUSSIA: JAPAN: SOUTH KOREA: Comment by colleague Henry Sokolski of NPEC, regarding Russia's threats to energy infrastructure of US allies. More tonight.

    PREVIEW: RUSSIA: JAPAN: SOUTH KOREA: Comment by colleague Henry Sokolski of NPEC, regarding Russia's threats to energy infrastructure of US allies. More tonight.
    Jan 3 2025
    PREVIEW: RUSSIA: JAPAN: SOUTH KOREA: Comment by colleague Henry Sokolski of NPEC, regarding Russia's threats to energy infrastructure of US allies. More tonight.
    1911 Korea funeral
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    2 mins
  • GOOD EVENING: The show begins in New Orleans and Las Vegas asking questions with few substantial explanations...

    GOOD EVENING: The show begins in New Orleans and Las Vegas asking questions with few substantial explanations...
    Jan 3 2025
    GOOD EVENING: The show begins in New Orleans and Las Vegas asking questions with few substantial explanations...


    1879 New Orleans

    CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR FIRST HOUR5 9-915 1/2: #NEW ORLEANS: #LAS VEGAS. ISIS, Lone Wolf, unknowns. .Bill Roggio, FDD 915-930 2/2#NEW ORLEANS: #LAS VEGAS. ISIS, Lone Wolf, unknowns. . .Bill Roggio, FDD
    930-945 #PRC: Decline continues unchecked. #SCALAREPORT: Chris Riegel CEO, Scala.com @Stratacache. . 945-1000 #OCEANIA: Nauru and Solomons bullied by both camps. @CleoPaskal, FDD SECOND HOUR 10-1015 1/2: #UKRAINE: Talks possible, little else for the Black Sea basin. Anatol Lieven, Quincy Institute 1015-1030 2/2: #UKRAINE: Talks possible, little else for the Black Sea basin. Anatol Lieven, Quincy Institute
    1030-1045 #NEW ORLEANS: What we don't know. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness
    1045-1100 #POTUS: Ending and postponing the trials of Trump. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness THIRD HOUR 1100-1115 1/8 Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman's Astonishing Life of Power, Seduction, and Intrigue Paperback – Large Print, October 8, 2024 by Sonia Purnell (Author)
    1115-1130 2/8 Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman's Astonishing Life of Power, Seduction, and Intrigue Paperback – Large Print, October 8, 2024 by Sonia Purnell (Author) 1130-1145 3/8: Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman's Astonishing Life of Power, Seduction, and Intrigue Paperback – Large Print, October 8, 2024 by Sonia Purnell (Author) 1145-1200 4/8: Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman's Astonishing Life of Power, Seduction, and Intrigue Paperback – Large Print, October 8, 2024 by Sonia Purnell (Author)
    FOURTH HOUR 12-1215 1/2: #PRINCETON: Disappointment. Peter Berkowitz, Hoover Institution 1215-1230 2/2: #PRINCETON: Disappointment. Peter Berkowitz, Hoover Institution 1230-1245 GOP: Not Isolatists. Cliff May, FDD 1245-100 am #UN: The US paid $18 Billion in 2022, one-third of the budget, and received disregard for the "assessment." John Bolton, WSJ
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    10 mins
  • #UN: The US paid $18 Billion in 2022, one-third of the budget, and received disregard for the "assessment." John Bolton, WSJ

    #UN: The US paid $18 Billion in 2022, one-third of the budget, and received disregard for the "assessment." John Bolton, WSJ
    Jan 3 2025
    #UN: The US paid $18 Billion in 2022, one-third of the budget, and received disregard for the "assessment." John Bolton, WSJ

    1950 UN Manhattan
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    9 mins
  • GOP: Not Isolationists. Cliff May, FDD

    GOP: Not Isolationists. Cliff May, FDD
    Jan 3 2025
    GOP: Not Isolationists. Cliff May, FDD

    1939 GOP including Bob Taft
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    11 mins
  • 2/2: #PRINCETON: Disappointment. Peter Berkowitz, Hoover Institution

    2/2: #PRINCETON: Disappointment. Peter Berkowitz, Hoover Institution
    Jan 3 2025
    2/2: #PRINCETON: Disappointment. Peter Berkowitz, Hoover Institution

    1903 Princeton
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    5 mins
  • 1/2: #PRINCETON: Disappointment. Peter Berkowitz, Hoover Institution

    1/2: #PRINCETON: Disappointment. Peter Berkowitz, Hoover Institution
    Jan 3 2025
    1/2: #PRINCETON: Disappointment. Peter Berkowitz, Hoover Institution

    undated Nassau Hall, Princeton University
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    13 mins
  • 4/8 Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman's Astonishing Life of Power, Seduction, and Intrigue Paperback – Large Print, October 8, 2024 by Sonia Purnell (Author)

    4/8 Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman's Astonishing Life of Power, Seduction, and Intrigue Paperback – Large Print, October 8, 2024 by Sonia Purnell (Author)
    Jan 3 2025
    4/8 Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman's Astonishing Life of Power, Seduction, and Intrigue Paperback – Large Print, October 8, 2024
    by Sonia Purnell (Author)

    https://www.amazon.com/Kingmaker-Harrimans-Astonishing-Seduction-Intrigue-ebook/dp/B0CQJHTHGY/?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_w=mGORW&content-id=amzn1.sym.bc3ba8d1-5076-4ab7-9ba8-a5c6211e002d&pf_rd_p=bc3ba8d1-5076-4ab7-9ba8-a5c6211e002d&pf_rd_r=131-1534402-8294242&pd_rd_wg=oGjro&pd_rd_r=28fc36b7-6eda-4621-b633-8a670774f5f4&ref_=aufs_ap_sc_dsk


    When Pamela Churchill Harriman died in 1997, the obituaries that followed were predictably scathing – and many were downright sexist. Written off as a mere courtesan and social climber, her true legacy was overshadowed by a glamorous social life and her infamous erotic adventures. Much of what she did behind the scenes – on both sides of the Atlantic - remained invisible and secret. That is, until now: with a wealth of fresh research, interviews and newly discovered sources, Sonia Purnell unveils for the first time the full, spectacular story of how she left an indelible mark on the world today.

    At age 20 Churchill’s beloved daughter-in-law became a “secret weapon” during World War II, strategically wining, dining, and seducing diplomats and generals to help win over American sentiment (and secrets) to the British cause against Hitler. After the war, she helped to transform Fiat heir Gianni Agnelli into Italy’s ‘uncrowned king’ on the international stage and after moving to the US brought a struggling Democratic party back to life, hand-picking Bill Clinton from obscurity and vaulting him to the presidency.

    Picked as Ambassador to France, she deployed her legendary subtle powers to charm world leaders and help efforts to bring peace to Bosnia, playing her part in what was arguably the high-water mark of American global supremacy.

    There are few at any time who have operated as close to the center of power over five decades and two continents, and there is practically no one in 20th Century politics, culture, and fashion whose lives she did not touch, including the Kennedys, Truman Capote, Aly Khan, Kay Graham, Gloria Steinem, Ed Murrow, and Frank Sinatra. Written with the novelistic richness and investigative rigor that only Sonia Purnell could bring to this story full of sex, politics, yachts, palaces and fabulous clothes, KINGMAKER re-asserts Harriman’s rightful place at the heart of history.
    1945 Trumman Cabinet including Averell Harriman, Secretary of Commerce
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    7 mins