Jacqueline Kennedy
Subtitle: historic conversations on life with John F. Kennedy, interviews with Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., 1964
Publisher: Hyperion
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9781401324254
Description: Shortly after President John F. Kennedy's assassination, with a nation deep in mourning and the world looking on in stunned disbelief, Jacqueline Kennedy found the strength to set aside her own personal grief for the sake of posterity and begin the task of documenting and preserving her husband's legacy. In January of 1964, she and Robert F. Kennedy approved a planned oral-history project that would capture their first-hand accounts of the late President as well as the recollections of those closest to him throughout his extraordinary political career. For the rest of her life, the famously private Jacqueline Kennedy steadfastly refused to discuss her memories of those years, but beginning that March, she fulfilled her obligation to future generations of Americans by sitting down with historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and recording an astonishingly detailed and unvarnished account of her experiences and impressions as the wife and confidante of John F. Kennedy. The tapes of those sessions were then sealed and later deposited in the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum upon its completion, in accordance with Mrs. Kennedy's wishes.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Caroline Kennedy; title: Introduction / Michael Beschloss; title: The first conversation; title: The second conversation; title: The third conversation; title: The fourth conversation; title: The fifth conversation; title: The sixth conversation; title: The seventh conversation; title: Source notes