false 290802 7 Fresh from her well-received life of Queen Elizabeth II, the English historian and biographer Sarah Bradford turns her hand to America's own answer to royalty, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Painstakingly detailed, impressively fair, the result is the most definitive account yet of a woman who captured the imagination of the American public like no First Lady before or after her. Bradford seems to have interviewed almost everyone who had ever been intimate with Onassis, including George Plimpton, Gore Vidal, Joan Kennedy, and even a few ex-lovers. Most notably of all, Jackie's sister Lee Radziwill speaks with unexpected frankness about the mixture of rivalry and affection that marked their relationship since childhood. Jackie-lovers, take note: this is no hagiography, and its subject certainly comes off as no saint. As gracious as this American icon could be, she also had moments of coldness and even greed, including a particularly shocking moment by the bedside of Ari Onassis's dying son. Yet, in the end, non-airbrushed anecdotes like these only serve to make this most private of public figures even more fascinating. Jackie was, as Bradford writes, "a complex woman of many facets, concealed insecurities and intricate defense mechanisms, a strong urge toward the limelight contrasting with a desire for privacy and concealment.... Behind the mask of beauty and fame lay a shrewd mind, a ruthless judgment of people, antennae finely turned to any sign of pretentiousness or pomposity, and a wry, even raunchy sense of humor." The figure who emerges from subsequent pages is as compelling as the heroine of any novel, and it is to Bradford's credit that she doesn't seem to have fallen completely under her subject's spell. Her approach is sympathetic, but never fawning; candid, but never sensationalistic. For those who are curious not about Jackie's glamour but about its source, <I>America's Queen</I> offers an unprecedented look at the flesh-and-blood woman behind the Camelot myth. <I>--Carlotta DeWitt</I> 1741529 2000 America's Queen: The Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis total:144|5:37|4:46|3:45|2:13|1:3| 144 533 241 19 4 1 false false Mon Dec 22 09:22:01 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 23 14:01:41 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Mar 22 13:22:00 -0700 2007 Tue May 01 06:25:41 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Oct 30 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Sun May 24 10:13:00 -0700 2009 Sun May 24 10:15:55 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Mon Oct 08 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Apr 02 12:46:06 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 09 12:47:50 -0700 2008 more...]]> 0 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Mar 24 08:08:35 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 24 08:09:43 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Wed Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Sun Jul 26 12:13:19 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 26 12:14:47 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Fri Apr 03 23:05:34 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 03 23:06:01 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Sun Sep 07 11:59:06 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 10 10:58:29 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Jul 12 20:02:14 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 12 20:02:30 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sun Jul 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 20 19:01:13 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 20 19:08:29 -0700 2008 This particular bio had a lot of info....so much that ...more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Aug 25 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 19 08:29:19 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 25 07:09:44 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Jan 20 16:32:25 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 23 22:03:21 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Jun 05 06:56:17 -0700 2007 Tue Jun 05 06:58:26 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 29 17:16:23 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 29 17:17:59 -0800 2008 3 0 false false Mon Aug 18 19:47:01 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 18 19:51:53 -0700 2008 3 0 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 22 14:50:53 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 22 14:54:24 -0700 2007
My review for this book, is that it is really good with historical information, but it isn't boring. In other words its not a boring autobiography, it is very ineresting. Ilearned so much from this book, that i would definntly recommend it to any one!]]> 3 0 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Mon Mar 03 08:49:34 -0800 2008 Mon Mar 03 08:51:34 -0800 2008 5 0 false false Fri Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Wed Jul 16 09:57:54 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 06 13:09:00 -0700 2008 1 0 false false Wed Feb 20 21:09:32 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 20 21:10:22 -0800 2008 2 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001 Tue Nov 10 13:32:07 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 10 13:32:07 -0800 2009