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A Very Private Woman: The Life and Unsolved Murder of Presidential Mistress Mary Meyer
In 1964, Mary Pinchot Meyer, the beautiful, rebellious, and intelligent ex-wife of a top CIA official, was killed on a quiet Georgetown towpath near her home. Mary Meyer was a secret mistress of President John F. Kennedy, whom she had known since private school days, and after her death, reports that she had kept a diary set off a tense search by her brother-in-law, newsma...more
ebook, 380 pages
Published
October 21st 2009
by Bantam
(first published 1998)
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Mar 05, 2013
Jason
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2 of 5 stars
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The identity of Mary Pinchot Meyer is know to a select few Americans and I can safely say that I'm one of them. The wife of CIA spy chief Cord Meyer she was one of the wives in the Georgetown social whirl of 1950's Washington, DC until she fatefully met our thirty-fifth President John F. Kennedy and was somewhat seduced by him. He died in the fall of 1963 and a year later Mary Meyer was found dead of a gunshot wound to the back of the head on the C&O towpath in Georgetown. Her killer was nev...more
For Baby Boomers like myself, this book takes you back to 'simpler times', the 50s-70s. It turns out that those simpler times weren't so simple after all. Post-war Washington was still considered a small town; WWII veterans, mostly officers, men considered heroes by their peers, are filing the ranks of the replacement for the OSS - the CIA. Even though this book is a biography of Mary Pinchot Myers, the author takes you through the changing landscape of the times. Some of the things I learned in...more
Nothing particularly spectacular about the writing style. But the actual true story of Mary Meyer's life was very interesting. I am an artist myself so I was interested in the group of artists she associated with. I looked them up on the internet to see what their work looked like. Her comings and goings at the White House was also very interesting.
Jan 17, 2012
Mary
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4 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Recommends it for:
Anyone who likes true crime
Recommended to Mary by:
Library Book Sale
This is the story of Mary Meyer - President Kennedy's mistress. I read this and it was very good, if a little over-involved in the writing. I liked this story very much and give it a B+!
One of the most interesting Camelot books ever written about a little known figure in President Kennedy's life.
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A really interesting book, especially if you live in DC (and yes, I started to read this before I realized that a movie about Mary Meyer was coming out). My only complaint is that the author seems to have come up with certain key themes or summary points that she uses over and over to clarify a section and transistion to the next -- led to over use of the same sentences over and over again through the book, but that was interspersed with a lot of interesting information about DC, the DC art scen...more
it was interesting from a perspective of what it was like to be a woman in Washington in the 1960s, also nice bit about the whole MK Ultra thing and Kennedy
Mar 19, 2011
Chamie
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4 of 5 stars
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a-b-c-challenge
Great book,well written,kept me wondering.
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