America’s queen: the life Jacqueline kennedy

In this definitive portrait-one that is both sympathetic and frank-acclaimed biographer Sarah Bradford explores the life of the woman who has captivated the public for more than five decades. With an extraordinary range of candid interviews many with people who have never spoken in such depth on record before-Bradford offers new insights into the woman behind the public persona. Bradford creates a coherent pic ture out of Jackie’s tumultuous and cosmopolitan life-from the aristocratic milieu of Newport and East Hampton to the Greek isles, from political Washington to New York’s publishing community. She probes sig nificant moments of Jackie’s privileged upbringing, her highly public marriages, her role as mother and as respected editor, and includes rare and previously unseen photos from private collections to create the most complete, and completely convincing, account yet written of this legendary life.
“Some of the most personally knowledgeable observations about [Jacqueline Kennedy
Onassis] that have ever been put into print.”
-The Boston Globe
“This book is most valuable for its clear-eyed attempt to understand Jackie’s complex drives and emotions-and the portrait that emerges has more faces than a Picasso…. Bradford’s depiction of her devastating grief-which still surfaced years after JFK’s assassination-is heartbreaking.”
-Newsweek