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    A Very Private Woman: The Life and Unsolved Murder of Presidential Mistress Mary Meyer
    A Very Private Woman: The Life and Unsolved Murder of Presidential Mistress Mary Meyer
    A Very Private Woman: The Life and Unsolved Murder of Presidential Mistress Mary Meyer
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    A Very Private Woman: The Life and Unsolved Murder of Presidential Mistress Mary Meyer

    Written by Nina Burleigh

    Narrated by Siiri Scott

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    In 1964, Mary Pinchot Meyer, the beautiful, rebellious, and intelligent ex-wife of a top CIA official, was killed on a quiet Georgetown towpath near her home. Mary Meyer was a secret mistress of President John F. Kennedy, whom she had known since private school days, and after her death, reports that she had kept a diary set off a tense search by her brother-in-law, newsman Ben Bradlee, and CIA spymaster James Jesus Angleton. But the only suspect in her murder was acquitted, and today her life and death are still a source of intense speculation, as Nina Burleigh reveals in her widely praised book, the first to examine this haunting story.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateNov 13, 2018
    ISBN9781541447981
    A Very Private Woman: The Life and Unsolved Murder of Presidential Mistress Mary Meyer
    Author

    Nina Burleigh

    Nina Burleigh is the national politics correspondent at Newsweek, an award-winning journalist, and the author of six books. Her most recent book, The Fatal Gift of Beauty, was a New York Times bestseller. Originally from the Midwest, she has lived in and reported from France, Italy, and the Middle East. She lives in New York City.

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    • 2/5
      ah... 2 Stars......maybe 3 Stars (if you like lots of information & politics)

      This reads like a long and boring (as in TMI) novel. The crux is an upper-crust, privileged, gal meets JFK while at Prep-School & on Vassar weekends. They meet up again after she's just gotten married at the opening of a U.N. Convention in San Francisco....and they continue to meet socially & politically on & off through the years. Her husband turns out to be a strong willed, opinionated sod high within the u.s. government (CIA), whom she divorces.....and so on & so forth.

      She continues her life in the upper crust social & political circles, where she becomes particularly close friends w/ the President, JFK......

      So let's see, one evening she goes for her evening walk, is found murdered on the tow path, and the police see some hapless black man who had been fishing and try to railroad him!

      I didn't need to read all the intimate details of her family life, I just wanted to know the juicy bits and I got very fed up trying to skim the pages in order to get to the actual story that the title suggests.

      Booooooooooooooring!
    • 4/5
      This is the story of Mary Meyer - President Kennedy's mistress. I read this and it was very good, if a little over-involved in the writing. I liked this story very much and give it a B+!