Jacqueline kennedy new biography

Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onasis: The Untold Story is the first book to document Jackie's thirty-one-year struggle with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

She writes about the early influences in her life, her role as first lady and the passions and causes that she undertook in her official life.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Jackie, Janet & Lee comes a fresh and often startling look at the life of the legendary former first lady.

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A Woman Named Jackie: An Intimate Biography of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis

Heymann, C. David (Kennedy, Jacqueline)

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New York, NY, USA: Carol Communications, First Edition. Hardcover. &#;&#;based on hundreds of exclusive interviews with members of Jackie’s family, friends and acquaintances. In addition, he was given unprecedented access to personal correspondence and other source materials. These included never-before released FBI, Secret Service, and White House files. Here is the most comprehensive portrait of this complex woman ever published.&#; (from front flap) C. David Heymann () was a bestselling biographer who wrote titillating accounts of famous lives that were devoured by the celebrity-obsessed society of the late 20th century. However, Heymann’s writing was often criticized as inaccurate or dishonest, beginning with Poor Little Rich Girl: The Life and Legend of Barbara Hutton (), which was recalled because of factual disputes. David K.

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Past Loves & Secret Disguises: The Biggest Bombshells from a Colorful New Jackie Kennedy Biography (Exclusive)

There was always more to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis than the life she led in public. According to a new biography — Jackie: Public, Private, Secret by J. Randy Taraborrelli — exclusively excerpted in this week's issue of PEOPLE, there is still much more to her discover.

In the book, Taraborrelli shares new details of Jackie's private life, including her relationship with former lover, architect Jack Warnecke, and how she really felt about a brief dalliance between her son, John F. Kennedy Jr., and Madonna.

Below, Taraborrelli discusses some of the biggest bombshells from the book.

Jackie's Mom Initially Wanted JFK to Marry Her Younger Daughter, Lee

While it was Jackie who would go on to marry John F. Kennedy in , her mom, Janet Bouvier, initially thought that her younger daughter, Lee, might be a better fit for the future president.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Jackie. One name was all you needed. A paragon of femininity, fashion, American wifeliness and motherhood, she was also fiercely independent, the first modern First Lady.

Traumatized and exposed after her husband’s murder, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy nonetheless built a new life for herself in an America similarly haunted by upheaval. She traveled relentlessly and dated widely before her marriage to a shipping magnate scandalized the world in There were so many stories, so many pictures: Jackie living abroad, Jackie climbing ruins, Jackie cruising the oceans, Jackie wandering Europe braless and with bare feet. But, in the decades since, that Jackie has been almost entirely erased.

Treated like a national soap opera and transmitted through newspapers, magazines, images, and TV during the s and s, Jackie’s story became wired into America’s emotional grid. In “Finding Jackie,” author Oline Eaton pieces the story back together, rediscovering Jackie as an adventure