Letters to Jackie
Subtitle: condolences from a grieving nation
By: [selected and edited by] Ellen Fitzpatrick
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Ecco
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 355
ISBN-13: 9780061969843
Description: Collects 250 examples of the thousands of condolence letters written to Jacqueline Kennedy following the assassination of her husband, President John F. Kennedy, in the first book to examine this extraordinary array of heartfelt correspondence.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : "a deep scar on our hearts"; title: November 22, 1963 : "history jumping up out of history books"; title: Politics, society, and President, 1963 : "he was born holding a flag"; title: Grief and loss : "the burden of his death".