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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“Taraborrelli spares readers from slogging through a conventional chronology, instead offering detailed vignettes in tandem with the necessary facts from his subject’s life that inform and enlighten…The author understatedly conveys the many heretofore-unknown details of Jackie’s ‘secret’ life without resorting to lurid or salacious sensationalism.”
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Kirkus Reviews