America's Queen: The Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
by Sarah Bradford
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Author: Sarah BradfordEdition: Paperback
Format: Bargain Price
Published: 2001-10-01
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 512
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Book Reviews of America's Queen: The Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Book Review: Incredible Read
Summary: 5 Stars
I was given this book after reading Ted Kennedy's True Compass. It was a
great follow-up read. Where his fell short on the family details in relation
to political careers, Bradford gives a richer account of Kennedy life. I couldn't
put this book down it was a real page turner. Bradford does a good job of
revealing the elusive Jackie utilizing accounts of many people in which her life crossed.
Her upbringing and the large influence wealth and loss of it contributed
to her need for money and lots of it. As well as the role of her womanizing father and
perfectionist mother. Its a political story as well as a personal one. The Kennedy's or Jackie
have never been a draw
for me personally but after the passing of Ted Kennedy and reading True compass,with some disappointment,
this book was suggested as a fuller picture, which it was. Every player
within the Kennedy family are discussed as well as life long family friends,
business associates, and rivals. I found the book exceptional and not trashy
magazine excerpts as another reviewer suggests. It walks behind what other reporters,writers
have chosen to leave absent, (often by the insistence of Jackie herself). Enjoy.
Summary of America's Queen: The Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
"Some of the most personally knowledgeable observations about [Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis] that have ever been put into print." (The Boston Globe)"Compulsively readable." (The Washington Post)
Acclaimed biographer Sarah Bradford explores the life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, the woman who has captivated the public for more than five decades, in a definitive portrait that is both sympathetic and frank. With an extraordinary range of candid interviews-many with people who have never spoken in such depth on record before-Bradford offers new insights into the woman behind the public persona. She creates a coherent picture out of Jackie's tumultuous and cosmopolitan life-from the aristocratic milieu of Newport and East Hampton to the Greek isles, from political Washington to New York's publishing community. She probes Jackie's privileged upbringing, her highly public marriages, and her roles as mother and respected editor, and includes rare photos from private collections to create the most complete account yet written of this legendary life.
Fresh from her well-received life of Queen Elizabeth II, the English historian and biographer Sarah Bradford turns her hand to America's own answer to royalty, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Painstakingly detailed, impressively fair, the result is the most definitive account yet of a woman who captured the imagination of the American public like no First Lady before or after her. Bradford seems to have interviewed almost everyone who had ever been intimate with Onassis, including George Plimpton, Gore Vidal, Joan Kennedy, and even a few ex-lovers. Most notably of all, Jackie's sister Lee Radziwill speaks with unexpected frankness about the mixture of rivalry and affection that marked their relationship since childhood. Jackie-lovers, take note: this is no hagiography, and its subject certainly comes off as no saint. As gracious as this American icon could be, she also had moments of coldness and even greed, including a particularly shocking moment by the bedside of Ari Onassis's dying son. Yet, in the end, non-airbrushed anecdotes like these only serve to make this most private of public figures even more fascinating. Jackie was, as Bradford writes, "a complex woman of many facets, concealed insecurities and intricate defense mechanisms, a strong urge toward the limelight contrasting with a desire for privacy and concealment.... Behind the mask of beauty and fame lay a shrewd mind, a ruthless judgment of people, antennae finely turned to any sign of pretentiousness or pomposity, and a wry, even raunchy sense of humor." The figure who emerges from subsequent pages is as compelling as the heroine of any novel, and it is to Bradford's credit that she doesn't seem to have fallen completely under her subject's spell. Her approach is sympathetic, but never fawning; candid, but never sensationalistic. For those who are curious not about Jackie's glamour but about its source, America's Queen offers an unprecedented look at the flesh-and-blood woman behind the Camelot myth. --Carlotta DeWitt
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