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Jackie

Public, Private, Secret

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1 of 2 copies available

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, listeners will become intimately familiar with all three.
New insights 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.
A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's Press.

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    • Library Journal

      June 10, 2024

      Journalist and celebrity biographer Taraborrelli (Jackie, Janet &Lee; The Hiltons) offers a revealing yet nuanced portrait of Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis. Drawing upon interviews with friends, family, and staff, Taraborrelli provides new insights into her relationships with her children, mother, lovers, friends, and husbands (John F. Kennedy and Aristotle Onassis). With measured pacing and a note of compassion, narrator Jane Oppenheimer details the subject's relationship with her intrusive and domineering mother, Janet Lee Bouvier Auchincloss, who greatly influenced her daughter's life choices, including convincing her to marry Kennedy. After his assassination, she strongly advised her against marrying John Carl Warnecke because he did not meet the mother's financial expectations. Taraborelli describes the trauma wrought by that horrific day in Dallas, an incident that led to lifelong bouts of post-traumatic stress. Oppenheimer sensitively voices several poignant chapters in Jackie's life, including a heartbreaking description of infant Patrick's death and the supportive condolence letters she received from dignitaries worldwide. VERDICT Enhanced by Oppenheimer's elegant narration, this absorbing account of an iconic woman's tragic and lavish life is not to be missed.--Ilka Gordon

      Copyright 2024 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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