| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xxv, 501 pages, [16] unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [441]-481) and index. |
| Summary |
"From New York Times bestselling author of Jackie, Janet & Lee comes a fresh and often startling look at the life of the legendary former first lady, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Based on hundreds of interviews with friends, family, and lovers over a thirty-year period--as well as previously unreleased material from the JFK Library--Kennedy historian J. Randy Taraborrelli paints an unforgettable new portrait of a woman whose flaws and contradictions only serve to make her even more iconic. "I have three lives," Jackie told a former lover, "public, private and secret." In this revealing biography, readers will become intimately familiar with all three. New insights from the book include: · Jackie's cold feet before her wedding to Jack Kennedy and her secret plan to avoid moving into the White House with him. · Jackie's plan to meet with the woman with whom her husband, Aristotle Onassis, was again having an affair, Maria Callas...and why, in the end, she decided against it. · The truth about the nude photos of Jackie which scandalized her in the 1970s...and which family member had betrayed her by selling them. · Her unusual relationship with Maurice Templesman, which was never what outsiders believed it to be. · The never-before-reported, last-ditch efforts to save Jackie's life with experimental cancer treatments, and the doctor who wouldn't risk jail time in order to treat her. Twenty-nine years after her death and sixty years after the assassination of President Kennedy, Jackie delivers the last word on one of the most famous women in the world"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Foreword: How remarkable -- Book I: Becoming Jackie -- Book II: The tragic heroine -- Book III: Rebirth -- Book IV: Decisions and consequences -- Book V: New horizons -- Book VI: Challenges -- Book VII: A sad farewell. |
| Subject |
Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy, 1929-1994.
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Celebrities -- United States -- Biography.
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Presidents' spouses -- United States -- Biography.
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Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy, 1929-1994. (OCoLC)fst00000693
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Celebrities. (OCoLC)fst00850072
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Presidents' spouses. (OCoLC)fst01075830
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
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Biographies.
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| ISBN |
9781250276216 (hardcover) |
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1250276217 (hardcover) |
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