Reading Jackie: Her Autobiography in Books
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| Rating | : | 4.72 (579 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0307744655 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 448 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-02-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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An amazing story--Jackie's life through the books she loved I did not know what to expect when I opened this book, a gift from a close friend. All I knew about Jackie Kennedy Onassis was the clothes, the men, the tragedies that raised her life to the level of myth. Not a life that, honestly, I thought I wanted to read more about.What a revelation William Kuhn's book is. By the end of the first chapter, describing in moving detail the last weeks of her life, I was hooked. This was a woman of imagination and courage, with a rich inner life that had nothing to do with paparazzi or parties. Like many intellige. FABULOUS - It Just Blew Me Away - FIVE STARS GLADLY !!!! Richard of Connecticut The sensitivity, the magnetism, the very spirit of this book was extraordinary. Page by page you travel through the career of the most famous woman in the world for two generations. I have been told by people that knew them personally, that when Jackie walked into a function at the White House, she was absolutely radiant. Remember she was about 30 then, but a moment or two later when he would walk in, he was Hollywood handsome.No casting studio could have selected a better couple to play themselves than themselves, that's how attractive they were . A portrait Jackie would have appreciated sparkster When William Kuhn, a biographer of prominent members of the Victorian Court, stumbled upon Jackie Onasis' list of publications, he was surprised and moved by the titles. Clearly he had found a kindred spirit, and his quest to try and unravel a piece of her story by analyzing her work as an editor is richly rewarding. The product is a biographical sketch of a professional life that even this very private woman would appreciate.
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. 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.. 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
With biographies of Clara Bow and Jean Harlow, the quietly feminist Onassis insisted on getting beyond publicity photo images to tell a woman's true story, says Kuhn. All rights reserved. From Publishers Weekly During the last two decades of her life, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis worked on nearly 100 books with varying degrees of responsibility as an editor, first at Viking--she resigned after being castigated by the New York Times about a Viking thriller with a Ted Kennedy–like protagonist as an assassination target--and then at Doubleday, which promised to avoid any similar embarrassments. (Dec.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. Being seen as royalty herself as the widow of JFK, the often imperious Onassis commissioned more than a dozen books on the royalty of