Jackie after O
Subtitle: one remarkable year when Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis defied expectations and rediscovered her dreams
By: Tina Cassidy
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: ItBooks
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780061994333
Subjects: Presidents' spouses; Celebrities; Book editors; Biography
Description: Defined in the public eye by her two high-profile marriages, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis faced a personal crossroads on the eve of 1975. Her relationship with Aristotle Onassis was crumbling while his health was rapidly declining. Her children were nearing adulthood, soon to leave her with an empty nest. But 1975 would also be a time of incredible growth and personal renaissance for Jackie, the year in which she reinvented herself and rediscovered talents and passions she had set aside for her roles as wife and mother. Author and journalist Tina Cassidy explores this prolific yet daunting year, including Jackie's part in the campaign to preserve Grand Central Terminal in New York City; her pursuit of a real career, in the editorial department of Viking Press; the death of her second husband and her fraught relationship with his surviving daughter; and the London bombing that almost took her own daughter's life. Cassidy has unearthed new information, and reveals intimate stories from earlier years that would lay the foundation for her new life beginning in 1975.--From publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-275).
Table of contents: title: Prologue; title: The wife; title: The writer; title: The preservationist; title: The widow; title: The target; title: The seeker; title: The hot prospect; title: The working woman; title: The empty nester; title: Epilogue.