Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: A Life Beyond Her Wildest Dreams

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: A Life Beyond Her Wildest Dreams

God had a talent for creating exceptional women--Helen of Troy and Cleopatra come to mind. So does Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, who lives again in this "warts-and-all" portrait. It's being released on the 20th anniversary of the tragic death, in 1994, of the icon who changed America's beliefs about what a woman of style, power, and influence could accomplish "behind the throne" of men whose careers changed the course of history.

During her tumultuous life, she zealously guarded her privacy and her secrets, but in the wake of her death, more and more revelations have emerged about her frustrations, her rage, her passions, her towering strengths, and her delicate fragility, which she hid from the glare of the world behind oversized sunglasses. Within this posthumous biography, a three-dimensional woman emerges through the compilation of some 1,000 eyewitness testimonials from men and women who knew her over a period of decades.

The public epitome of charm, grace, and elegance, the private, chain-smoking Jackie was known for her sharp wit and her acid tongue, dissing some of the great men and women she encountered. Examples include such figures as Nancy Reagan (â€œI heard she used to give the best head in Hollywood when she was a starlet at MGMâ€); Queen Elizabeth II (â€œpompous, stuffy, a heavy trip, and seriously pissed off at me for turning on Philipâ€); or Martin Luther King, Jr. (â€œa terrible man and a tricky, phony, skirt-chaser and race baiterâ€).

This outspoken testimonial to the flimsier side of Camelot contains a cornucopia of gossip and intrigue, including details about Jackieâ€™s scandalous love affairs with her two brothers-in-law (Bobby and Teddy), and her penchant for movie star seductions (Warren Beatty, Paul Newman, William Holden).

Also detailed are her famous feuds with Grace Kelly, Marilyn Monroe, and Maria Callas; her almost unknown love affairs with Spainâ€™s greatest matador and with Peter Lawford; her night in Georgetown coping with LBJâ€™s aborted seduction; her friend Rudolf Nureyevâ€™s pursuit of both her and Bobby; her interchanges with Lem Billings, JFKâ€™s homosexual â€œFirst Friendâ€ whom Bobby defined as â€œJackâ€™s other wifeâ€); her blood feud with Christina Onassis; her sibling rivalry with Lee Radziwill; her illicit affair with a senator nicknamed â€œGorgeous George; her love-hate relationship with Frank Sinatra; and her Italian fling with Fiatâ€™s kingpin, Gianni Agnelli, who taught her all about La Dolce Vita during the summer of 1962.

Conceived in direct and sometimes defiant contrast to the avalanche of more breathlessly respectful testimonials to the life and legacy of â€œAmericaâ€™s Queen,â€ this book is the latest installment in Blood Moonâ€™s endlessly irreverent BABYLON series.
Country USA
Manufacturer Blood Moon Productions
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2014-05-30
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Blood Moon Productions
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2014-05-30
Format	Kindle eBook

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: A Life Beyond Her Wildest Dreams

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