‘American Jennie.’ By Anne Sebba. W.W. Norton, $26.95. There’s no denying that Jennie Churchill had a fascinating life, though it would have killed a lesser woman. The debts, the lovers, the ...
Early in “Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons,” a double biography of Jennie Jerome Churchill and Sara Delano Roosevelt, author Charlotte Gray tells us that Winston Churchill’s American mother had grown ...
As Winston Churchill's mother and close adviser, Brooklyn-born Jennie Jerome (1854–1921) may have rated a chapter in the history books. But steeped in scandal, the passionate, ambitious and beautiful ...