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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... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis: Add a description of this character.
- Diana Vreeland
- Carly Simon
- Gelsey Kirkland
- Hugh D. 'Yusha' Auchincloss III: Jackie's stepbrother
- Lyndon B. Johnson
- Michael Jackson
- Martha Graham
- John Lennon
- Barbara Chase-Riboud: American author and artist.
- Rudolf Nureyev
- Lee Bouvier Radziwill: Jackie's sister.
- Naguib Mahfouz: Award-winning Egyptian writer.
- Joseph Campbell
- Sally Hemings
- Bill Moyers
- Nancy Tuckerman
- Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg
- Thomas Jefferson
- Marie Antoinette
- George Balanchine
Setting & Locations edit
- New York Public Library
- White House
- Paris
- United States
- Washington, D.C.
- India
- Russia
- France
- Hollywood
- Egypt
- Versailles
- Guinzburg
- Virginia
- England
- Texas
- Chicago
- Newport, Rhode Island
- California
- Europe
- Prague
- London
- Great Britain
- Greece
- Boston
- Dallas
- Hyannis
- China
- Arizona
- Harvard
- Massachusetts
- Manhattan
- Alabama
- Skorpios
- Zaroulis
- Farmington
- Long Island
- Moscow
First Sentence edit
Miss Porter's School is a college prep school for girls arranges in a dozen historic houses on either side of a two-lane highway running through Farmington, a suburb of Hartford, Connecticut.
Table of Contents edit
Author's Note
Prologue
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Epilogue
Acknowledgements
Books Edited by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis as an Author
Sources
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Illustration Credits
Index
Authors & Contributors edit
- William Kuhn (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Nan A. Talese
Country: United States
Publication Date: December 7, 2010
ISBN: 978-0385530996
Page Count: 368
Publisher: Nan A. Talese
Country: United States
Publication Date: December 7, 2010
ISBN: 978-0385530996
Page Count: 368
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: PN149.9.O53 K84 2010
- Dewey: 070.509492
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