| Record Number |
774016 |
| ISBN |
9781250128010 (hardback) |
| 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 Taraborrelli. |
| Edition |
First edition. |
| Publisher/Date |
New York, N.Y. : St. Martin's Press, 2018. |
| ©2018 |
| Pagination etc. |
514 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography, etc. note |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [461]-494) and index. |
| Contents note |
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 ..." -- Epilogue: Passages. |
| Summary Note |
"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. It was a lesson neither would ever forget. They followed in their mother's footsteps after her marriages to the philandering socialite 'Black Jack' Bouvier and the fabulously rich Standard Oil heir Hugh D. Auchincloss. Jacqueline Bouvier would marry John F. Kennedy and the story of their marriage is legendary, as is the story of her second marriage to Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis. Less well known is the story of her love affair with a world renowned architect and a British peer. Her sister, Lee, had liaisons with one and possibly both of Jackie's husbands, in addition to her own three marriages--to an illegitimate royal, a Polish prince and a Hollywood director. Based on hundreds of new interviews with friends and family of the Bouviers, among them their own half-brother, as well as letters and journals, J. Randy Taraborrelli paints an extraordinary psychological portrait of two famous sisters and their ferociously ambitious, yet extremely protective, mother.-- |
| Subject - Name |
Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy, -- 1929-1994 |
| Auchincloss, Janet Lee, -- 1907-1989 |
| Radziwill, Lee Bouvier, -- 1933- |
| Subject |
Mothers and daughters -- United States |
| Presidents' spouses -- United States -- Biography |
| Celebrities -- United States -- Biography |
| Biographies. |
| Shelf Location |
973.92092 TARA |
