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American Jennie: The Remarkable Life of Lady Randolph Churchill
by Anne Sebba
Product Group: Book
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company (2007-11-17)
ISBN: 0393057720
EAN: 9780393057720
Dewey Decimal #: 941.081092
Binding/Media: Hardcover - 416 pages
Edition: 1St Edition
SKU: 70917363
Condition: New
Comments: Sold with pride. Brand new, unread copy. This is not a previously owned copy, but comes from the publisher, to us and to you.
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
A frank account of the tempestuous life of the American mother of Britain’s most important twentieth-century politician. Brooklyn-born Jennie Jerome married into the British aristocracy in 1874, after a three-day romance. She became Lady Randolph Churchill, wife of a maverick politician and mother of the most famous British statesman of the century. Jennie Churchill was not merely the most talked about and controversial American woman in London society, she was a dynamic behind-the-scenes political force and a woman of sexual fearlessness at a time when women were not supposed to be sexually liberated. A concert pianist, magazine founder and editor, and playwright, she was also, above all, a devoted mother to Winston. In American Jennie, Anne Sebba draws on newly discovered personal correspondences and archives to examine the unusually powerful mutual infatuation between Jennie and her son and to relate the passionate and ultimately tragic career of the woman whom Winston described as having “the wine of life in her veins.”
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Customer Reviews
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Social history
Rating  (2)
Date: 2009-11-16
If you're interested in social history, royal gossip and who attended which dances, this book is excellent (at least about the first 100 pages, I gave up) but if Edith Wharton isn't your style, I recommend that you find something else to read. I listened to the first four CDs while commuting to work and couldn't take anymore.
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Churchill's mother - an American in History
Rating  (5)
Date: 2009-02-09
0 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
This book is an intereting piece. Biographies are my favortie (autobiogragphies I tend to find are skewed by the authors opinions of themselves). There is so much history and interseting facts that I doubt most of America knows about Winston Churchill and his "colorful" mother. I was unaware that he had relatives who fought on both sides of the war at the same time... or that he was part American Indian... and no one I've told these things to knew either.
Very well done given the cast of characters are not available for interview!
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Enjoyed this
Rating (5)
Date: 2009-01-19
Jennie Jerome Churchill has always been fascinating and this book goes into much more detail of her life than those I've read in the past. Definitely a keeper.
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American Jennie
Rating  (4)
Date: 2008-07-25
0 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
Very scholarly bio, quotes from letters and written info extensively. Appears to be very close to fact but at times too much like a term paper. Brings a very unique American woman to life.
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woman who live life her own way
Rating (5)
Date: 2008-04-27
2 out of 3 customers found this reveiw helpful
to me jennie churchill was a selfish ,pleasure seeking woman who only cared about herself.she couldn't wait to get nannies taking care her sons are puting them in abusive boarding schools.she as a wife was a marriage were she couldn't stay faithful or not keeping her husband in debit.to me why winston feeling of love for her i just don't get.his nanny was more a mother to him than jennie.
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