Format:
Large Print, Book
Author:
Taraborrelli, J. Randy, author.
Title:
Jackie, Janet & Lee : the secret lives of Janet Auchincloss and her daughters Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwill / J. Randy Taroborrelli.
Edition:
Large print edition.
Publisher, Date:
Farmington Hills, Mich : Thorndike Press, [2018]
Description:
827 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm.
large print
Summary:
"'Do you know what the secret to happily-ever-after is?' Janet Bouvier Auchincloss would ask her daughters Jackie and Lee during their tea time. 'Money and power, ' she would say. If the Bouvier women personified beauty, style and fashion, it was their lust for money and status that drove them to seek out powerful men. Based on hundreds of new interviews with friends and family of the Bouviers as well as letters and journals, J. Randy Taraborrelli paints an extarordinary psychological portrait of two famous sisters and their ferociously ambitious mother, "--Page 4 of cover.
Series:
Thorndike Press large print biographies and memoirs.
Subjects:
Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy, 1929-1994.
Auchincloss, Janet Lee, 1907-1989.
Radziwill, Lee, 1933-2019
Mothers and daughters -- United States.
Presidents' spouses -- United States -- Biography.
Celebrities -- United States -- Biography.
Genre:
Large print books.
Biographies.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 745-819).
Contents:
The beginning -- A mother's duty -- Heady times -- The White House years -- Trouble brewing -- The assassination -- Recovery -- Transition -- Onassis -- Shifting tides -- Enduring -- "Well, happy and loved ..."
LCCN:
2017058352
ISBN:
9781432847944 (large print) (hardcover)
1432847945 (large print) (hardcover)
Other Number:
1015275521
System Availability:
1
Current Holds:
0
Control Number:
3655918
Call Number:
973.922092/2 B
Course Reserves:
0
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1