Edition |
Large print edition. |
Description |
863 pages (large print), 12 unnumbered pages of plates ; 22 cm. |
Physical Medium |
large print rdafs |
Series |
Thorndike Press large print biography and memoir |
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Thorndike Press large print biographies and memoirs.
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Note |
"The text of this Large print edition is unabridged. Other aspects of the book may vary from the original edition." |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
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. |
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. |
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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Large type books.
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large print books. (CStmoGRI)aat300206232
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Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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ISBN |
9798885797191 (large print ; hardcover) |
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