Reading Jackie: Her Autobiography in Books
Written by William Kuhn
Narrated by Susan Denaker
()
Currently unavailable
Currently unavailable
About this audiobook
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 authors, colleagues, and friends, Reading Jackie mines this significant period of her life to reveal both the serious and the mischievous woman underneath the glamorous public image.
Though Jackie had a reputation for avoiding publicity, she willingly courted controversy in her books. She was the first editor to commission a commercially-successful book telling the story of Thomas Jefferson's relationship with his female slave. Her publication of Gelsey Kirkland's attack on dance icon George Balanchine caused another storm. Jackie rarely spoke of her personal life, but many of her books ran parallel to, echoed, and emerged from her own experience. She was the editor behind bestsellers on the assassinations of Tsar Nicholas II and John Lennon, and in another book she paid tribute to the allure of Marilyn Monroe and Maria Callas. Her other projects take us into territory she knew well: journeys to Egypt and India, explorations of the mysteries of female beauty and media exploitation, into the minds of photographers, art historians, and the designers at Tiffany & Co.
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. Reading Jackie provides a compelling behind-the-scenes look at Jackie at work: how she commissioned books and nurtured authors, as well as how she helped to shape stories that spoke to her strongly. Jackie is remembered today for her marriages to JFK and to Aristotle Onassis, but her real legacy is the books that reveal the tastes, recollections, and passions of an independent woman.
William Kuhn
William Kuhn is a biographer and historian, and the author of Reading Jackie, Democratic Royalism, Henry & Mary Ponsonby, and The Politics of Pleasure. He lives in Boston, Massachusetts. This is his first novel. His next book, a work of historical fiction, explores the friendship over nearly forty years of Isabella Stewart Gardner and John Singer Sargent.
Related to Reading Jackie
Related audiobooks
The Black Echo: Special Edition Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5In the Houses of Their Dead: The Lincolns, the Booths, and the Spirits Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Our Mutual Friend (Unabridged) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Wolf and the Dove Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Jennie Churchill: Winston's American Mother Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Mystery of Charles Dickens Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5After the Fall Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Catcher in the Rye Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Myra Breckinridge: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Critics, Monsters, Fanatics, and Other Literary Essays Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5In the Mountains of Madness: The Life, Death, and Extraordinary Afterlife of H.P. Lovecraft Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Monkey Wrench Gang Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Good Man Is Hard To Find And Other Stories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/550 Real American Ghost Stories: A Journey Into the Haunted History of the United States – 1800 to 1899 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsVolume V: We Can Remember It for You Wholesale Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5These Fevered Days: Ten Pivotal Moments in the Making of Emily Dickinson Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Fire Season: Selected Essays 1984 - 2021 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsJackie Kennedy Onassis: The Widow Of Camelot Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLincoln's Body Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Shanna Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Buckley and Mailer: The Difficult Friendship That Shaped the Sixties Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Pearl Buck in China: Journey to The Good Earth Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5J.D. Salinger: The Escape Artist Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Bloody Spur Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Awakening Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Benjamin Franklin: An American Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Mary Shelley: A Very Short Introduction Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Ashes in the Wind Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Street Poison: The Biography of Iceberg Slim Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Biography & Memoir For You
The House in the Cerulean Sea Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Divine Rivals: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5All the Sinners Bleed: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Local Woman Missing Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Fairy Tale Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Nothing to See Here Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Paris Apartment: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Twisted Love Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5From Blood and Ash Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5And Then There Were None Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5If He Had Been with Me Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Overstory Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Good Girls Don't Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Bell Jar Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Hang the Moon: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Billion Years: My Escape From a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Dutch House: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Later Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Angela's Ashes Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Year of Magical Thinking Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of September 11, 2001 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: One Introvert's Year of Saying Yes Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How Y'all Doing?: Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Leave the World Behind: A Novel Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A Child Called It: One Child's Courage to Survive Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5In Five Years: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for Reading Jackie
0 ratings0 reviews