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Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis never wrote a memoir, but she told

her life story and revealed herself in intimate ways through the

nearly 100 books she brought into print during the last two decades

of her life as an editor at Viking and Doubleday. Based on archives

and interviews with Jackie's authors, colleagues, and friends,

Reading Jackie mines this significant period of her life to reveal

both the serious and the mischievous woman underneath the glamorous

public image.

Though Jackie had a reputation for avoiding

publicity, she willingly courted controversy in her books. She was

the first editor to commission a commercially-successful book

telling the story of Thomas Jefferson’s relationship with his

female slave. Her publication of Gelsey Kirkland's attack on

dance icon George Balanchine caused another storm. Jackie rarely

spoke of her personal life, but many of her books ran parallel to,

echoed, and emerged from her own experience. She was the editor

behind bestsellers on the assassinations of Tsar Nicholas II and

John Lennon, and in another book she paid tribute to the allure of

Marilyn Monroe and Maria Callas. Her other projects take us into

territory she knew well: journeys to Egypt and India, explorations

of the mysteries of female beauty and media exploitation, into the

minds of photographers, art historians, and the designers at

Tiffany & Co.

Many Americans regarded Jackie as the paragon of

grace, but few knew her as the woman sitting on her office floor

laying out illustrations, or flying to California to persuade

Michael Jackson to write his autobiography. Reading Jackie provides

a compelling behind-the-scenes look at Jackie at work: how she

commissioned books and nurtured authors, as well as how she helped

to shape stories that spoke to her strongly. Jackie is remembered

today for her marriages to JFK and to Aristotle Onassis, but her

real legacy is the books that reveal the tastes, recollections, and

passions of an independent woman.

AUTHOR'S NOTE

Prologue

Chapter l

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Epilogue

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

BOOKS EDITED BY JACQUELINE KENNEDY ONASSIS

JACQUELINE KENNEDY ONASSIS AS AN AUTHOR

SOURCES

NOTES

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

ILLUSTRATION CREDITS

INDEX

WILLIAM KUHN is a biographer and historian. He is the author of

three previous books, including, most recently, a controversial

biography, The Politics of Pleasure: A Portrait of Benjamin

Disraeli. His Henry and Mary Ponsonby: Life at the Court of

Queen Victoria was a BBC Radio Four Book of the Week read by

actor Geoffrey Palmer.

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Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis never wrote a memoir, but she told her life story and revealed herself in intimate ways through the nearly 100 books she brought into print during the last two decades of her life as an editor at Viking and Doubleday. Based on archives and interviews with Jackie's authors, colleagues, and friends, Reading Jackie mines this significant period of her life to reveal both the serious and the mischievous woman underneath the glamorous public image.

Though Jackie had a reputation for avoiding publicity, she willingly courted controversy in her books. She was the first editor to commission a commercially-successful book telling the story of Thomas Jefferson’s relationship with his female slave. Her publication of Gelsey Kirkland's attack on dance icon George Balanchine caused another storm. Jackie rarely spoke of her personal life, but many of her books ran parallel to, echoed, and emerged from her own experience. She was the editor behind bestsellers on the assassinations of Tsar Nicholas II and John Lennon, and in another book she paid tribute to the allure of Marilyn Monroe and Maria Callas. Her other projects take us into territory she knew well: journeys to Egypt and India, explorations of the mysteries of female beauty and media exploitation, into the minds of photographers, art historians, and the designers at Tiffany & Co.

Many Americans regarded Jackie as the paragon of grace, but few knew her as the woman sitting on her office floor laying out illustrations, or flying to California to persuade Michael Jackson to write his autobiography. Reading Jackie provides a compelling behind-the-scenes look at Jackie at work: how she commissioned books and nurtured authors, as well as how she helped to shape stories that spoke to her strongly. Jackie is remembered today for her marriages to JFK and to Aristotle Onassis, but her real legacy is the books that reveal the tastes, recollections, and passions of an independent woman.