Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
Subtitle: The untold story
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9781250017642
Table of contents: title: At a cocktail party in Newport, Rhode Island, in the waning summer of 1945; title: Everything had changed in the weeks since Jackie had had her interview with Frank Waldrop; title: "How perfect it is being married," Jackie exulted at the close of her honeymoon stay in Acapulco; title: For the rest of his life, Elmer Bartels would puzzle over Jackie Kennedy's behavior when he encountered her again in New York in October 1954; title: There are rumors going around in Washington about the senator and his wife, that they're not getting along, and that they've been separated; title: Later, Jackie would tell the story of her marriage to Jack Kennedy in terms of his evolving sense of her political viability; title: Jackie would relive the sliver of time between the first gunshot, which had missed the car, and the second, which hit both the president and Texas governor John Connally; title: I just wanted you to know you were loved by so many and so much; title: "I think we gotta give a little thought to our vice president," said Lyndon Johnson; title: "I just heard that you were probably going to go to the memorial to the president," LBJ told Jackie on the phone; title: The arrangements for Jackie's thirty-seventh birthday celebration, to be held belatedly at the Mellon's Osterville, Massachusetts, estate, on August 5, 1966, began in a haze of secrecy; title: On December 20, 1966 the North American newspaper alliance sent out over the newswire an article "For Immediate Release," accompanied by a note to the editors of 90 papers: "This may be the first article in newspapers that is openly critical of Jacqueline Kennedy's posture in America"; title: On Sunday, February 18, 1968, the sound of revolver shots automatically tripped off the security system in Jackie's brain; title: On the rainy evening of October 20, 1968, Jackie began the latest iteration of what she persisted in calling "my new life"; title: Even before Aristotle Onassis died, David Harlech had judged that Jackie, aged 45, seemed somehow to have, in his phrase, "turned a corner"; title: By the time of the book party for Louis Auchincloss's new nonfiction work, Maverick in Mauve, more than 30 years had passed since the champagne-stoked evening when Auchincloss, then aged thirty-four, and Jackie Bouvier, aged twenty-two, had both been in crisis over how they intended to spend the rest of their lives