Oh, no one told you about Lady Randolph Churchill? Jennie Jerome? The woman who invented the Manhattan cocktail? The woman who was so beautiful that a famous admirer compared her (lovingly ...

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 ...

But, of course, Jennie Jerome was no ordinary Brooklyn girl. She was the daughter of a very wealthy man, Leonard Jerome. But this very wealthy man had fairly meager beginnings. Born in 1817 ...

Dammit!” She settled on Jennie Jerome, the brilliant socialite wife of Lord Randolph Churchill and mother of Winston. Her now-two-person, 13-character play is being premiered by the Berkshires’ WAM ...