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Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis: The Untold Story | Barbara Leaming
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Traces the pattern of Jacqueline Onassis' life from her youth to her transformation into a deft political wife and unique First Lady, and examines her thirty-year struggle with PTSD after the assassination of her husband, John F. Kennedy.
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Leaming‘s stress on Jackie's PTSD was illuminating at first, but was repeated so often it got gimmicky, but I liked the emphasis on Jackie's forties & onward, when she was a conservationist who saved NYC's Grand Central Railway when it was threatened with destruction and saw through notable books in her editor role. These kinds of details make it valuable overall, since it is, admittedly, a well-trodden story that is difficult to make fresh.

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This was a really well told biography that focused on Jacqueline and her life. She has a very interesting history and I don't think she should ever be defined by her marriage to JFK.

bitterbear She was also a huge reader... ♡♡ My favorite photograph of her.. she's on a plane reading a paperback of on the road... ♡ 8y
beagle.mama I love her and agree with you that she should not be defined by her marriage. I know she was an editor. I'd love to read books she edited. I think editors' names should be on book covers. 8y
TheNextBook @bitterbear @beagle.mama This book does a really good job looking at her life before JFK, how she was affected by his death and how she chose to live after. 8y
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Reviewsbylola Sounds fascinating. 8y
TheNextBook Oohh @rubyslippersreads I hadn'r heard of that one. It looks good. 8y
bitterbear @rubyslippersreads two simulator books came out at the same time.. I really liked this. 8y
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This book... I liked it because the story was really about her. What was life like before and after JFK? It looked at her as a person and worked to answer some really interesting questions about her. I was engaged the entire time.

Leelee08 ❤️ 8y
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I adore Jackie. This book portrayed her as a survivor. After both her marriages, she went on to have a successful career of her own when she really didn't need to.

shawnmooney I adore her too! I devoured my first biography of her when I was about 13 years old… :-) 9y
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Not sure about this book yet but I thought it would be interesting to read at the same time as Cleopatra.

ThomasHewlett Never thought about pairing biographies before. I'm going to try that! 9y
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