Reading Jackie
Subtitle: her autobiography in books
By: William Kuhn
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Nan A Talese/Doubleday
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 350
Subjects: Presidents' spouses; Book editors; Biography; Editors
Description: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis never wrote a memoir, but she told her life story and revealed herself in intimate ways through the nearly 100 books she brought into print during the last two decades of her life as an editor at Viking and Doubleday. Based on archives and interviews with Jackie's authors, colleagues, and friends, this book mines this significant period of her life to reveal both the serious and the mischievous woman underneath the glamorous public image. Many Americans regarded Jackie as the paragon of grace, but few knew her as the woman sitting on her office floor laying out illustrations, or flying to California to persuade Michael Jackson to write his autobiography. This book provides a behind the scenes look at Jackie at work: how she commissioned books and nurtured authors, as well as how she helped to shape stories that spoke to her strongly.--From publisher description.
Notes: "Books edited by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis": p. [292]-297.

"Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis as an author": p. [298].

Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-334) and index.