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Our Jackie: Public Claims on a Private Life Audiobook, by Karen M. Dunak Play Audiobook Sample

Our Jackie: Public Claims on a Private Life Audiobook

Our Jackie: Public Claims on a Private Life Audiobook, by Karen M. Dunak Play Audiobook Sample
Release Date: November 12, 2024
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Read By: Laural Merlington Publisher: Tantor Audio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 8.33 hours at 1.5x Speed 6.25 hours at 2.0x Speed
Release Date: November 12, 2024
Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9798855598889

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

20

Longest Chapter Length:

58:58 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

03:43 minutes

Average Chapter Length:

37:28 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

1

Publisher Description

The story of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis through her evolving public persona, from campaign wife to First Lady to fallen idol to treasured national icon

When Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis became First Lady of the United States over sixty years ago, she stepped into the public spotlight. Although Jackie is perhaps best known for her two highly-publicized marriages, her legacy has endured beyond twentieth-century pop culture and she remains an object of public fascination today.

Drawing on a range of sources—from articles penned for the women's pages of local newspapers, to esteemed national periodicals, to fan magazines, and film—Our Jackie evaluates how media coverage of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis changed over the course of her public life. Jackie's interactions with and framing by the American media reflect the changing attitudes toward American womanhood. Over the course of four decades, Jackie was alternatively praised for her service to others, and pilloried for her perceived self-interest. In Our Jackie, Karen M. Dunak argues that whether she was portrayed as a campaign wife, a loyal widow, a selfish jet-setter, or a mature career woman, the history of Jackie's highly publicized life demonstrates the ways in which news, entertainment, politics, and celebrity evolved and intertwined over the second half of the twentieth century.

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About Laural Merlington

Laural Merlington is an audiobook narrator with over two hundred titles to her credit and a winner of multiple Earphones Awards. An Audie Award nominee, she has also directed over one hundred audiobooks. She has performed and directed for thirty years in theaters throughout the country. In addition to her extensive theater and voice-over work, she teaches college in her home state of Michigan.