Jackie kennedy biography book
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Jackie. One name was all you needed. A paragon of femininity, fashion, American wifeliness and motherhood, she was also fiercely independent, the first modern First Lady.
Traumatized and exposed after her husband’s murder, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy nonetheless built a new life for herself in an America similarly haunted by upheaval. She traveled relentlessly and dated widely before her marriage to a shipping magnate scandalized the world in There were so many stories, so many pictures: Jackie living abroad, Jackie climbing ruins, Jackie cruising the oceans, Jackie wandering Europe braless and with bare feet. But, in the decades since, that Jackie has been almost entirely erased.
Treated like a national soap opera and transmitted through newspapers, magazines, images, and TV during the s and s, Jackie’s story became wired into America’s emotional grid. In “Finding Jackie,” author Oline Eaton pieces the story back together, rediscovering Jackie as an adventure
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There are a few true modern American icons in our history. Born Jacqueline “Jackie” Lee Bouvier to a high-class family in New York, everyone knew Jackie was meant for greatness.
Not only was she the wife, and eventual widow, of former U.S. President John F. Kennedy, but she became a household name for many reasons. From her devotion to her family to her pristine fashion sense, her successful book editing to her strength in times of grief, everyone saw themselves in Jackie, and fell in love with her for it.
Her life didn’t stop when Kennedy passed on that fateful day, if anything, she became a emblem of strength. She took care of their children, and grandchildren, remarried her second husband Aristotle Onassis, and la
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The definitive biography of Jackie Kennedy, by Britain's best royal biographer
Jackie Kennedy was a twentieth-century icon of glamour, elegance and grace. As the beautiful young wife of President John F. Kennedy, she was adored, her style imitated across the world.
But beneath the perfection of her public life lay contradiction, passion, and, all to often, tragedy. Sarah Bradford's brilliant new biography not