Jackie : public, private, secret / J. Randy Taraborrelli.
"From New York Times bestselling author of Jackie, Janet & Lee comes a fresh and often startling look at the life of the legendary former first lady, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Based on hundreds of interviews with friends, family, and lovers over a thirty-year period--as well as previously unreleased material from the JFK Library--Kennedy historian J. Randy Taraborrelli paints an unforgettable new portrait of a woman whose flaws and contradictions only serve to make her even more iconic. "I have three lives," Jackie told a former lover, "public, private and secret." In this revealing biography, readers will become intimately familiar with all three. New insights from the book include: --Jackie's cold feet before her wedding to Jack Kennedy and her secretplan to avoid moving into the White House with him. --Jackie's plan to meet with the woman with whom her husband, Aristotle Onassis, was again having an affair, Maria Callas...and why, in the end, she decided against it. --The truth about the nude photosof Jackie which scandalized her in the 1970s...and which family member had betrayed her by selling them. --Her unusual relationship with Maurice Templesman, which was never what outsiders believed it to be. --The never-before-reported, last-ditch effortsto save Jackie's life with experimental cancer treatments, and the doctor who wouldn't risk jail time in order to treat her. Twenty-nine years after her death and sixty years after the assassination of President Kennedy, Jackie delivers the last word onone of the most famous women in the world"-- Provided by publisher.
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- ISBN: 9798885797191
- Physical Description: 863 pages (large print), (12 unnumbered plates) : photographs ; 22 cm
- Edition: Large print edition.
- Publisher: [Farmington Hills, Michigan] : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2024.
- Copyright: ©2023
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General Note: | "The text of this Large print edition is unabridged. Other aspects of the book may vary from the original edition." |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Subject: | Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy, 1929-1994. Celebrities > United States > Biography. Presidents' spouses > United States > Biography. Large type books. |
Genre: | Biographies. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Coldwater Branch | LP 921 ONASSIS, JACQUELINE KENNEDY (Text) | 35401425310959 | Large Print | Available | - |