Perhaps the most revealing anecdote in the 472-page book comes when she tells her friend Peter Duchin that she always felt like an outsider because she was raised Catholic and came from a broken home at a time when divorce was rare. But such insights are scant. Even with all of Andersen's supposed research, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis remains inscrutable. After reading this book, it makes one realize what a loss it is that she never wrote her memoirs. But she knew better.
Silence becomes a legend most.
Clifford Pugh is a Chronicle reporter.