Letters To Jackie

Author : Ellen Fitzpatrick
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010-02-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780061991257

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Letters to Jackie by Ellen Fitzpatrick Pdf

“A terrific, original, and important work….Fitzpatrick provides a stunningly fresh look at the impact of JFK’s assassination on the American people.” —Doris Kearns Goodwin For Letters to Jackie, noted historian and News Hour with Jim Lehrer commentator Ellen Fitzpatrick combed through literally thousands of condolence messages sent by ordinary Americans to Jacqueline Kennedy following the assassination of her husband, President John F. Kennedy, in 1963. The first book ever to examine this extraordinary collection, Letters to Jackie presents 250 intimate, heartfelt, eye-opening responses to what was arguably the most devastating event in twentieth century America, providing a fascinating perspective on a singular time in the history of our nation.

Author : Jay Mulvaney,Paul De Angelis
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781429946025

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Dear Mrs. Kennedy by Jay Mulvaney,Paul De Angelis Pdf

From the bestselling author of Kennedy Weddings and Diana and Jackie comes a powerful and moving collection of the condolence letters Jacqueline Kennedy received after the assassination of John F. Kennedy In the weeks and months following the assassination of her husband, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy received more than one million letters. The impact of President Kennedy's death was so immense that people from every station in life wrote to her, sharing their feelings of sympathy, sorrow, and hope. She received letters from political luminaries such as Winston Churchill, Martin Luther King Jr., and Charles De Gaulle. Hollywood stars like Lauren Bacall, Vivian Leigh, and Gene Kelly voiced their sympathy, as did foreign dignitaries including Queen Elizabeth II, the King and Queen of Greece, and the Prince of Monaco. Distinguished members of the arts and society—Ezra Pound, Noel Coward, Babe Paley, Langston Hughes, Oleg Cassini, Josephine Baker—offered their heartfelt condolences. And children, with the most heartbreaking sincerity, reached out to the First Lady to comfort her in her time of grief. More than just a compendium of letters, Dear Mrs. Kennedy uses these many voices to tell the unforgettable story of those fateful four days in November, when the world was struck with shock and sadness. It vividly captures the months that followed, as a nation---and a family---attempted to rebuild. Filled with emotion, patriotism, and insight, the letters are a poignant time capsule of one of the seminal events of the twentieth century. Dear Mrs. Kennedy offers a diverse portrait not only of the aftermath of the assassination, but of the Kennedy mystique that continues to captivate the world.

Author : Jackie Cummings Koski
Publisher : Jackie Koski
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-07
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781479731930

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Money Letters by Jackie Cummings Koski Pdf

Letters from a mother to her daughter about all things dealing with money and personal finances. It's not about teaching how to make more money, but how to better manage the money you have. Every letter starts with a lesson and ends with love -- Back cover.

Author : William Kuhn
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307744654

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Reading Jackie by William Kuhn Pdf

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis never wrote a memoir, but she told her life story and revealed herself in intimate ways through the nearly 100 books she brought into print as an editor at Viking and Doubleday during the last two decades of her life. Many Americans regarded Jackie as the paragon of grace, but few knew her as the woman sitting on her office floor laying out illustrations, or flying to California to persuade Michael Jackson to write his autobiography. William Kuhn provides a behind-the-scenes look at Jackie at work: commissioning books and nurturing authors, helping to shape stories that spoke to her. Based on archives and interviews with her authors, colleagues, and friends, Reading Jackie reveals the serious and the mischievous woman underneath the glamorous public image.

Author : Michael G. Long
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 517 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2007-10-02
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781429920193

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First Class Citizenship by Michael G. Long Pdf

Never-before-published letters offer a rich portrait of the baseball star as a fearless advocate for racial justice at the highest levels of American politics Jackie Robinson's courage on the baseball diamond is one of the great stories of the struggle for civil rights in America, and his Hall of Fame career speaks for itself. But we no longer hear Robinson speak for himself; his death at age fifty-three in 1972 robbed America of his voice far too soon. In First Class Citizenship, Jackie Robinson comes alive on the page for the first time in decades. The scholar Michael G. Long has unearthed a remarkable trove of Robinson's correspondence with—and personal replies from—such towering figures as Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Hubert Humphrey, Nelson Rockefeller, and Barry Goldwater. These extraordinary conversations reveal the scope and depth of Robinson's effort during the 1950s and 1960s to rid America of racism. Writing eloquently and with evident passion, Robinson charted his own course, offering his support to Democrats and to Republicans, questioning the tactics of the civil rights movement, and challenging the nation's leaders when he felt they were guilty of hypocrisy—or worse. Through his words as well as his actions, Jackie Robinson truly personified the "first class citizenship" that he considered the birthright of all Americans, whatever their race.

Author : Jackie Scott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1736105027

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Letters to the Lost Ones by Jackie Scott Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-14
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780008374457

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Letters to the Earth: Writing to a Planet in Crisis by Anonim Pdf

A profound, powerful and moving collection of 100 letters from around the world responding to the climate crisis, introduced by Emma Thompson and lovingly illustrated by CILIP award winner Jackie Morris. ‘All power to this amazing project.’ JOANNE HARRIS ‘Makes sense of the climate crisis in a whole new way’ MAGID MAGID

Author : Kathy McKeon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781501158940

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Jackie's Girl by Kathy McKeon Pdf

A "coming-of-age memoir by a young woman who spent thirteen years as Jackie Kennedy's personal assistant and occasional nanny--and the lessons about life and love she learned from the glamorous [former] first lady"--Amazon.com.

Author : J. Randy Taraborrelli
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 53,6 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 : Wendy Leigh
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2004-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0312331215

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The Secret Letters by Wendy Leigh Pdf

In a series of letters exchanged between the wife and mistress of JFK, each woman struggles with their tenacious friendship, love for the same man, and reluctant understanding of each other's feelings.

Author : Greg Lawrence
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 50,6 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 : Shelly Branch,Sue Callaway
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1592401902

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What Would Jackie Do? by Shelly Branch,Sue Callaway Pdf

Draws on expert commentary and the reminiscences of those who knew her best to consider how Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis would have tackled twenty-first-century challenges.

Author : Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Publisher : Backbeat Books
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015066798219

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One Special Summer by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Pdf

In 1951, eighteen-year-old Lee Bouvier and her twenty-two-year-old sister Jacqueline took their first trip to Europe together. Jackie had already spent a year in France living with a French family and attending the Sorbonne. Her many cards and letters had made her sister Lee want nothing more than to see Europe with Jackie. Having convinced their parents, the two young ladies set off to see the continent. As they traveled, they sketched and kept notes, creating an illustrated journal of their time abroad, which they presented to their parents as a thank you upon their return; that delightful chronicle is ONE SPECIAL SUMMER. Join Jackie and Lee for a tantalizing glimpse of a lost world: crossing the Atlantic by ocean liner, visits with counts and ambassadors in Paris, art lessons in Venice, and white gloves in the afternoon. Smile at the social agonies all young women suffer in common--how to politely consume an oversized hors d'oeuvre, the horror of slipping undergarments, and the art of fending off unwanted romantic advances.

Author : William Manchester
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780316370721

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The Death of a President by William Manchester Pdf

William Manchester's epic and definitive account of President John F. Kennedy's assassination--now restored to print in a new paperback edition. As the world still reeled from the tragic and historic events of November 22, 1963, William Manchester set out, at the request of the Kennedy family, to create a detailed, authoritative record of the days immediately preceding and following President John F. Kennedy's death. Through hundreds of interviews, abundant travel and firsthand observation, and with unique access to the proceedings of the Warren Commission, Manchester conducted an exhaustive historical investigation, accumulating forty-five volumes of documents, exhibits, and transcribed tapes. His ultimate objective -- to set down as a whole the national and personal tragedy that was JFK's assassination -- is brilliantly achieved in this galvanizing narrative, a book universally acclaimed as a landmark work of modern history.

Author : Jackie Coulbeck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1039157882

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Letters From Far Away Places by Jackie Coulbeck Pdf

Between 1963 and 1964, Jackie Coulbeck and her husband Bill went on the adventure of a lifetime: travelling all around the world. Based on the letters that Jackie sent home to family in Canada, this illustrated memoir details the places, people, food, and activities that Jackie and Bill encountered along their way. After visiting the US and crossing the equator, the Coulbecks worked in New Zealand and Australia and then explored Asia, Africa, and Europe, making friends everywhere they went. Jackie's vivacious narrative voice brings these historical events to life, interweaving curiosity, poignant reflections, gratitude, and humour. Letters from Far Away Places just might inspire you to see the world!