Just Jackie: Her Private Years

by Edward Klein

Book Overview

She was perhaps the most famous, most scrutinized, most talked about woman of our century. From the moment Jacqueline Kennedy stepped into the White House, she inspired a generation of Americans and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0345421027
• ISBN13: 9780345421029
• Release Date: October 1998
• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Length: 399 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

CAPTIVATING

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Fleshing Out Jackie

I have been a lifelong follower of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and thought I knew a great deal about the facts of her life. But like everyone else I was on a quest to understand what was under the facade. This book didn't bring more insight about the ever elusive "Jackie", but it did provide a fleshed out version of many of the extraordinary circumstances of her incredible life. With so much of the history of her life presented like "visual" soundbites, it was engrossing to read this book's details which to a great extent humanized Jackie to me as never before. The image may have seemed effortless, but the cost of her public persona was more than anyone should have to pay. It is strangely comforting that she was so very human, and such a woman of her time -- at first looking for her purpose through a man, and finally finding her identity and happiness from within. I thought when I was a child at the time of JFK's assassination that I would never have been able to do what Jackie did during the time of his death and funeral. It is reassuring to know that no one, not even Jackie, could possibly behave the way she did without a tidal wave of emotional pain that nearly spanned the remainder of her time on earth.

Impartial and interesting : We never stop being fascinated

Jackie O., like Diana Princess of Wales and Marilyn Monroe are all females who are interest never wanes in. Sadly, they all had tragedy in their lives, and none were particularly lucky in love, although they had tremendous fame and adulation... I don't think we needed to know about Jackie's touching the intimate body parts of her deceased husband. That did seem quite a violation of confidence on the author's part, IF it was true. It is a shame she cannot rest in peace without us digging up every fact, yet I confess to curiosity. None of us know what we might have done in her position. It is a thought provoking book about the former first lady, and the stresses she had to cope with.