Jackie Oh!: An Intimate Biography
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Few figures in American public life have captivated the imagination quite like Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis — First Lady, fashion icon, widow, and enigma — and Jackie Oh! strips away the carefully constructed myth to reveal the woman beneath the legend. Kitty Kelley chronicles Jackie's extraordinary journey from her privileged upbringing through her tumultuous White House years, her devastating widowhood following JFK's assassination, and her controversial marriage to Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, drawing on hundreds of interviews with those who knew her intimately. A masterwork of celebrity biography, this portrait uncovers the contradictions at the heart of one of the twentieth century's most scrutinised women — the steely ambition hidden behind a breathy whisper, the fierce independence masked by a demure public image. Kelley's signature style is unflinching and meticulously researched, presenting a narrative that challenges the sanitised Camelot mythology and forces the reader to ask: how well did the world truly know Jackie at all?
Author: Kitty Kelley
Format: Hardback
Published: 1978
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Few figures in American public life have captivated the imagination quite like Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis — First Lady, fashion icon, widow, and enigma — and Jackie Oh! strips away the carefully constructed myth to reveal the woman beneath the legend. Kitty Kelley chronicles Jackie's extraordinary journey from her privileged upbringing through her tumultuous White House years, her devastating widowhood following JFK's assassination, and her controversial marriage to Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, drawing on hundreds of interviews with those who knew her intimately. A masterwork of celebrity biography, this portrait uncovers the contradictions at the heart of one of the twentieth century's most scrutinised women — the steely ambition hidden behind a breathy whisper, the fierce independence masked by a demure public image. Kelley's signature style is unflinching and meticulously researched, presenting a narrative that challenges the sanitised Camelot mythology and forces the reader to ask: how well did the world truly know Jackie at all?