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  • Published: 1 December 2011
  • ISBN: 9780307744654
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 448
  • RRP: $45.00
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Reading Jackie

Her Autobiography in Books




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 as an editor at Viking and Doubleday during the last two decades of her life. Many Americans regarded Jackie as the paragon of grace, but few knew her as the woman sitting on her office floor laying out illustrations, or flying to California to persuade Michael Jackson to write his autobiography. William Kuhn provides a behind-the-scenes look at Jackie at work: commissioning books and nurturing authors, helping to shape stories that spoke to her. Based on archives and interviews with her authors, colleagues, and friends, Reading Jackie reveals the serious and the mischievous woman underneath the glamorous public image.

  • Published: 1 December 2011
  • ISBN: 9780307744654
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 448
  • RRP: $45.00
Categories:

Praise for Reading Jackie

"Sheds new light on the part of [Jackie's] life that she most clearly chose for herself.... An essential chapter in a remarkable life." --Los Angeles Times