Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Author : Barbara Leaming
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781250017635

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Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis: The Untold Story by Barbara Leaming Pdf

The instant New York Times and USA Today bestseller! The untold story of how one woman's life was changed forever in a matter of seconds by a horrific trauma. Barbara Leaming's extraordinary and deeply sensitive biography is the first book to document Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis' brutal, lonely and valiant thirty-one year struggle with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) that followed JFK's assassination. Here is the woman as she has never been seen before. In heartrending detail, we witness a struggle that unfolded at times before our own eyes, but which we failed to understand. Leaming's biography also makes clear the pattern of Jackie's life as a whole. We see how a spirited young woman's rejection of a predictable life led her to John F. Kennedy and the White House, how she sought to reconcile the conflicts of her marriage and the role she was to play, and how the trauma of her husband's murder which left her soaked in his blood and brains led her to seek a very different kind of life from the one she'd previously sought. A life story that has been scrutinized countless times, seen here for the first time as the serious and important story that it is. A story for our times at a moment when we as a nation need more than ever to understand the impact of trauma.

Author : Donald Spoto
Publisher : Wheeler Publishing, Incorporated
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1568958951

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Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis by Donald Spoto Pdf

Based on access to a wealth of a new material gleaned from her own writings; from documents at the schools she attended; from the archives of the John F. Kennedy Library; and from interviews with those who knew her best.

Author : Sarah Bradford
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2001-10-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101564011

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America's Queen by Sarah Bradford Pdf

Now the subject of a new film directed by Pablo Larrain, "Jackie", starring Natalie Portman Acclaimed biographer Sarah Bradford explores the life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, the woman who has captivated the public for more than five decades, in a definitive portrait that is both sympathetic and frank. With an extraordinary range of candid interviews—many with people who have never spoken in such depth on record before—Bradford offers new insights into the woman behind the public persona. She creates a coherent picture out of Jackie’s tumultuous and cosmopolitan life—from the aristocratic milieu of Newport and East Hampton to the Greek isles, from political Washington to New York’s publishing community. She probes Jackie’s privileged upbringing, her highly public marriages, and her roles as mother and respected editor, and includes rare photos from private collections to create the most complete account yet written of this legendary life. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis's life is once again the center of interest with the 2016 release of the Pablo Larrain movie "Jackie", starring Natalie Portman.

Author : Greg Lawrence
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781429975186

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Jackie as Editor by Greg Lawrence Pdf

An absorbing chronicle of a much overlooked chapter in Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis's life—her nineteen-year editorial career History remembers Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis as the consummate first lady, the nation's tragic widow, the millionaire's wife, and, of course, the quintessential embodiment of elegance. Her biographers, however, skip over an equally important stage in her life: her nearly twenty year long career as a book editor. Jackie as Editor is the first book to focus exclusively on this remarkable woman's editorial career. At the age of forty-six, one of the most famous women in the world went to work for the first time in twenty-two years. Greg Lawrence, who had three of his books edited by Jackie, draws from interviews with more than 125 of her former collaborators and acquaintances in the publishing world to examine one of the twentieth century's most enduring subjects of fascination through a new angle: her previously untouted skill in the career she chose. Over the last third of her life, Jackie would master a new industry, weather a very public professional scandal, and shepherd more than a hundred books through the increasingly corporate halls of Viking and Doubleday, publishing authors as diverse as Diana Vreeland, Louis Auchincloss, George Plimpton, Bill Moyers, Dorothy West, Naguib Mahfouz, and even Michael Jackson. Jackie as Editor gives intimate new insights into the life of a complex and enigmatic woman who found fulfillment through her creative career during book publishing's legendary Golden Age, and, away from the public eye, quietly defined life on her own terms.

Author : Ellen Ladowsky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Celebrities
ISBN : 1581650469

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Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis by Ellen Ladowsky Pdf

Author : J. Randy Taraborrelli
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781250128034

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Jackie, Janet & Lee by J. Randy Taraborrelli Pdf

*THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* A dazzling biography of three of the most glamorous women of the 20th Century: Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, her mother Janet Lee Auchincloss, and her sister, Princess Lee Radziwill. “Do you know what the secret to happily-ever-after is?” Janet Bouvier Auchincloss would ask her daughters Jackie and Lee during their tea time. “Money and Power,” she would say. It was a lesson neither would ever forget. They followed in their mother’s footsteps after her marriages to the philandering socialite “Black Jack” Bouvier and the fabulously rich Standard Oil heir Hugh D. Auchincloss. Jacqueline Bouvier would marry John F. Kennedy and the story of their marriage is legendary, as is the story of her second marriage to Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis. Less well known is the story of her love affair with a world renowned architect and a British peer. Her sister, Lee, had liaisons with one and possibly both of Jackie's husbands, in addition to her own three marriages—to an illegitimate royal, a Polish prince and a Hollywood director. If the Bouvier women personified beauty, style and fashion, it was their lust for money and status that drove them to seek out powerful men, no matter what the cost to themselves or to those they stepped on in their ruthless climb to the top. Based on hundreds of new interviews with friends and family of the Bouviers, among them their own half-brother, as well as letters and journals, J. Randy Taraborrelli's book paints an extraordinary psychological portrait of two famous sisters and their ferociously ambitious mother.

Author : Donna Brown Agins
Publisher : Enslow Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Celebrities
ISBN : 0766021866

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Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis by Donna Brown Agins Pdf

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis lived most of her life in the spotlight. She dazzled the world as stylish first lady, courageous widow, loving mother, and accomplished career woman. Jackie, as she was known, was born into wealth and privilege, but her life was far from a fairy tale. Beauty, intelligence, and power did not protect her from tragedy and sorrow. How did such a private woman manage to live in the public eye and stay true to herself? How did she rebuild her life after her husband, President John F. Kennedy, was assassinated? Readers of this illuminating portrait will discover why Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis is one of the most fascinating women in American history. Book jacket.

Author : Beatrice Gormley
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010-05-11
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781439113585

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Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis by Beatrice Gormley Pdf

One of the most popular series ever published for young Americans, these classics have been praised alike by parents, teachers, and librarians. With these lively, inspiring, fictionalized biographies -- easily read by children of eight and up -- today's youngster is swept right into history.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:909898825

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Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Publisher : Carroll & Graf Pub
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0786704020

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The Last Will and Testament of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Pdf

Readers who wish to know more about the woman and her life will delight in this deluxe facsimile of the complete, unedited will of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, containing a four-color frontispiece portrait of Mrs. Onassis.

Author : William Kuhn
Publisher : Montgomery Street Press
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780998917061

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Jackie Stories: Eight Friends of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis by William Kuhn Pdf

What was it like to meet and talk to people who knew Jackie Kennedy Onassis well? Each of these eight people gave me a surprising look into what it was like to live and work in Jackie's world. 1 Nancy Tuckerman was Jackie's friend from boarding school and also her lifelong assistant. 2 Jackie was wary around Nan Talese, one of the most important people in publishing. Jackie was also envious of Nan. 3 Distantly related to her by marriage, Louis Auchincloss gave Jackie a hard time when she wanted to slip out of the spotlight. 4 Sarah Giles was an editor at Vanity Fair. She worked with Jackie in her apartment at 1040 Fifth Avenue on a book that got them both into trouble. 5 Ruth Ansel knew Jackie via man about town and major photographer Peter Beard. When Jackie had a rare chance to acquire an authorized biography of Audrey Hepburn, Jackie confessed to Ruth why she couldn't do it. 6 Rosamond Bernier gave sold-out lectures at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She was married to The New York Times'sart critic. Their wedding was at Philip Johnson's famous glass house in Connecticut. Nevertheless, Philip Johnson later proved treacherous both to Rosamond Bernier and to Jackie. 7 Francis Mason advised Jackie when she wanted to switch jobs. The story of how she ignored his advice and managed to remain friends with him is testimony to a high-spirited talent that the two of them shared. 8 Edith Welch and her husband went to India with Jackie. Jackie didn't always behave well on these trips, nor did Edith's husband.

Author : Tina Cassidy
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780062098917

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Jackie After O by Tina Cassidy Pdf

Former Boston Globe reporter Tina Cassidy delivers a remarkable account of one year in the life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, America’s favorite first lady and an international icon. 1975 was a year of monumental changes for Jackie: it was the year she lost her second husband, shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, saved one of New York City’s cultural landmarks at Grand Central Station, and found her true calling—not as a powerful man’s wife or the mother of future leaders, but as a woman of the workforce with a keen mind and a dedication to excellence. Readers of Christopher Andersen’s Jackie After Jack and Pamela Clarke Keogh’s Jackie Style will find no better look at the intimate world of America’s Queen of Camelot than Tina Cassidy’s Jackie After O.

Author : Stephen Birmingham
Publisher : New York : Pocket Books ; Markham, Ont. : Distributed in Canada by PaperJacks
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0671828622

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Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis by Stephen Birmingham Pdf

Author : Biographiq
Publisher : Biographiq
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1599860309

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Jackie O by Biographiq Pdf

Jackie O - Biography of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis is the biography of the wife of John F. Kennedy from 1953 to 1963. She served as First Lady of the United States from 1961 until her husband's assassination in 1963. She was married to Aristotle Onassis from 1968 until his death in 1975. In later years she had a successful career as a book editor. Mrs. Kennedy is know for the numerous social events that she planned which brought the First Couple into the nation's cultural spotlight. Through the years during and after she was First Lady, Jacqueline Kennedy was a fashion icon. Many women tried to copy her clean suits, dresses and hairstyles. Jackie O - Biography of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis is highly recommended for those interested in reading more about this popular First Lady of the United States.

Author : Catherine Corley Anderson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1996-03
Category : Celebrities
ISBN : 0822597144

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Jackie Kennedy Onassis by Catherine Corley Anderson Pdf

The story of a woman who was a famous President's wife but her charm and beauty captivated the people all over the world.