Best Jackie Kennedy Biography - April 2024

Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy

To mark John F. Kennedy's centennial, celebrate the life and legacy of the 35th President of the United States. In 1964, Jacqueline Kennedy recorded seven historic interviews about her life with John F. Kennedy. Now, for the first time, they can be read in this deluxe, illustrated eBook.Shortly after President John F. Kennedy's assassination, with a nation deep in mourning and the world looking on in stunned disbelief, Jacqueline Kennedy found the strength to set aside her own personal grief for the sake of posterity and begin the task of documenting and preserving her husband's legacy. In Jan... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1401324258
• ASIN: 1401324258
• ISBN: 1401324258
• Brand: Hyperion Books
• Manufacturer: Hyperion

Upstairs at the White House: My Life with the First Ladies

In this New York Times bestseller, the White House chief usher for nearly three decades offers a behind-the-scenes look at America’s first families.  J. B. West, chief usher of the White House, directed the operations and maintenance of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue—and coordinated its daily life—at the request of the president and his family. He directed state functions; planned parties, weddings and funerals, gardens and playgrounds, and extensive renovations; and, with a large staff, supervised every activity in the presidential home. For twenty-eight years, first as assistant to the chie... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00F3QYL06
• ASIN: B00F3QYL06
• Brand: Unknown
• Manufacturer: Open Road Media

Mrs. Kennedy and Me

The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir by Clint Hill that Kirkus Reviews called “clear and honest prose free from salaciousness and gossip,” Jackie Kennedy’s personal Secret Service agent details his very close relationship with the First Lady during the four years leading up to and following President John F. Kennedy’s tragic assassination.In those four years, Hill was by Mrs. Kennedy’s side for some of the happiest moments as well as the darkest. He was there for the birth of John, Jr. on November 25, 1960, as well as for the birth and sudden death of Patrick Bouvier Kennedy on A... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1451648464
• ASIN: 1451648464
• ISBN: 1451648464
• Brand: Gallery Books
• Manufacturer: Gallery Books

Jackie's Girl: My Life with the Kennedy Family

New York Times Bestseller An endearing coming-of-age memoir by a young woman who spent thirteen years as Jackie Kennedy’s personal assistant and occasional nanny—and the lessons about life and love she learned from the glamorous first lady.In 1964, Kathy McKeon was just nineteen years old and newly arrived from Ireland when she was hired as the personal assistant to former first lady Jackie Kennedy. The next thirteen years of her life were spent in Jackie's service, during which Kathy not only played a crucial role in raising young Caroline and John Jr., but also had a front-row seat to so... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1501158945
• ASIN: 1501158945
• ISBN: 1501158945
• Brand: GALLERY
• Manufacturer: Gallery Books

What Remains: A Memoir of Fate, Friendship, and Love

A stunning, tragic memoir about John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife Carolyn Bessette, and his cousin Anthony Radziwill, by Radziwill’s widow.What Remains is a vivid and haunting memoir about a girl from a working-class town who becomes an award-winning television producer and marries a prince, Anthony Radziwill. Carole grew up in a small suburb with a large, eccentric cast of characters. At nineteen, she struck out for New York City to find a different life. Her career at ABC News led her to the refugee camps of Cambodia, to a bunker in Tel Aviv, and to the scene of the Menendez murders. Her marri... [Read More]

• ASIN: 074327718X
• UPC: 884644543495
• ASIN: 074327718X
• ISBN: 074327718X
• Brand: Scribner Book Company
• Manufacturer: Scribner

Five Presidents: My Extraordinary Journey with Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Kennedy and Me and Five Days in November reflects on his seventeen years on the Secret Service for presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford.The assassination of one president, the resignation of another, and the swearing-in of the two who followed those traumatic events. Clint Hill was there, on duty, through Five Presidents. After an extraordinary career as a Special Agent on the White House Detail, Clint Hill retired in 1975. His career spanned the administrations of Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Ri... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1476794146
• ASIN: 1476794146
• ISBN: 1476794146
• Brand: Gallery Books
• Manufacturer: Gallery Books

America's Queen: The Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

• ASIN: B00BPDRPWC
• ASIN: B00BPDRPWC
• Manufacturer: Penguin Books

Mrs. Kennedy: The Missing History of the Kennedy Years

A definitive portrait of Jacqueline Kennedy during the thousand days of John F. Kennedy's administration sheds new light on her life as both a woman and as First Lady, drawing on eyewitness testimony, intimate letters, and previously unavailable documents to document the tumultuous everyday world of a woman fighting for herself, her marriage, and her husband's presidency. 100,000 first printing.

• ASIN: 0684862093
• ASIN: 0684862093
• ISBN: 9780684862095
• Manufacturer: Free Press

Jackie, Janet & Lee: The Secret Lives of Janet Auchincloss and Her Daughters Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwill

*THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**CURRENTLY BEING DEVELOPED FOR TELEVISION BY TOMORROW STUDIOS*A dazzling biography of three of the most glamorous women of the 20th Century: Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, her mother Janet Lee Auchincloss, and her sister, Princess Lee Radziwill.“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 philanderi... [Read More]

• ASIN: B073TSXCR8
• ASIN: B073TSXCR8
• Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press

The Fabulous Bouvier Sisters: The Tragic and Glamorous Lives of Jackie and Lee

A poignant, evocative, and wonderfully gossipy account of the two sisters who represented style and class above all else—Jackie Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwill—from the authors of Furious Love.When sixty-four-year-old Jackie Kennedy Onassis died in her Fifth Avenue apartment, her younger sister Lee wept inconsolably. Then Jackie’s thirty-eight-page will was read. Lee discovered that substantial cash bequests were left to family members, friends, and employees—but nothing to her. "I have made no provision in this my Will for my sister, Lee B. Radziwill, for whom I have great affection... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0062364987
• ASIN: 0062364987
• ISBN: 0062364987
• Manufacturer: Harper

The Private Passion of Jackie Kennedy Onassis: Portrait of a Rider

In The Private Passion of Jackie Kennedy Onassis, Vicky Moon illuminates just how vital a role horses played throughout Jackie's often tumultuous life. Jackie's mother propped her up on a horse when she was just a year old, and throughout her childhood Jackie turned to her pony Buddy to distract her from the stress of her parents' precarious marriage. As a woman struggling under the intense pressures of her role as First Lady, riding a horse through the countryside was a much-needed tonic. And later in her life, as a mourning widow and then a reluctant celebrity, riding offered Jackie peace an... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0060524111
• ASIN: 0060524111
• ISBN: 0060524111
• Manufacturer: Harper Design

A Woman Named Jackie: An Intimate Biography of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis

Presents a woman both creative and intelligent, and driven by ambition and an enjoyment of power, and culls the insights of friends, family, and acquaintances to portray a veteran of tremendous success and great tragedy

• ASIN: 0818404728
• ASIN: 0818404728
• ISBN: 0818404728
• Manufacturer: Lyle Stuart

Five Days in November

Don’t miss the New York Times bestseller Five Days in November, where Secret Service agent Clint Hill tells the stories behind the iconic images of those five infamous, tragic days surrounding JFK’s assassination, published for the 50th anniversary of his death.On November 22, 1963, three shots were fired in Dallas, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, and the world stopped for four days. For an entire generation, it was the end of an age of innocence. That evening, a photo ran on the front pages of newspapers across the world, showing a Secret Service agent jumping on the back of t... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1476731500
• ASIN: 1476731500
• ISBN: 1476731500
• Brand: Gallery Books
• Manufacturer: Gallery Books

I Never Had It Made: An Autobiography of Jackie Robinson

Before Barry Bonds, before Reggie Jackson, before Hank Aaron, baseball's stars had one undeniable trait in common: they were all white. In 1947, Jackie Robinson broke that barrier, striking a crucial blow for racial equality and changing the world of sports forever. I Never Had It Made is Robinson's own candid, hard-hitting account of what it took to become the first black man in history to play in the major leagues. I Never Had It Made recalls Robinson's early years and influences: his time at UCLA, where he became the school's first four-letter athlete; his army stint during World War II, wh... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0060555971
• ASIN: 0060555971
• ISBN: 9780060555979
• Brand: Ecco Press
• Manufacturer: Harper Perennial

Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot

A riveting historical narrative of the shocking events surrounding the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and the follow-up to mega-bestselling author Bill O'Reilly's Killing Lincoln. More than a million readers have thrilled to Bill O'Reilly's Killing Lincoln, the page-turning work of nonfiction about the shocking assassination that changed the course of American history. Now the anchor of The O'Reilly Factor; recounts in gripping detail the brutal murder of John Fitzgerald Kennedy--and how a sequence of gunshots on a Dallas afternoon not only killed a beloved president but also sent the natio... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0805096663
• ASIN: 0805096663
• ISBN: 0805096663
• Brand: MacMillan Publishers
• Manufacturer: Henry Holt and Co.

Jackie, Janet & Lee : The Secret Lives of Janet Auchincloss and Her Daughters Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwill

9781250128010

• UPC: 56088925
• Rating: 3.0

Jackie, Janet & Lee : The Secret Lives of Janet Auchincloss and Her Daughters Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwill

*THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**CURRENTLY BEING DEVELOPED FOR TELEVISION BY TOMORROW STUDIOS*A dazzling biography of three of the most glamorous women of the 20th Century: Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, her mother Janet Lee Auchincloss,

• UPC: 330811559
• Rating: 3.0

Jackie's Girl : My Life with the Kennedy Family

A "coming-of-age memoir by a young woman who spent thirteen years as Jackie Kennedy's personal assistant and occasional nanny--and the lessons about life and love she learned from the glamorous [former] first

• UPC: 55217256
• Rating: 4.333

Jackie as Editor : The Literary Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Lawrence delivers an absorbing chronicle of a much-overlooked chapter in Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis's life--her 19-year editorial career. "Jackie as Editor" gives intimate new insights into the life of a complex and enigmatic

• UPC: 15933460
• Rating: 4.0

Jackie After O : One Remarkable Year When Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Defied Expectations and Rediscovered Her Dreams

Former Boston Globe reporter Tina Cassidy delivers a remarkable account of one year in the life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, America's favorite first lady and an international icon. 1975 was a year of monumental changes

• UPC: 21104065
• Rating: 3.667

When Jackie Saved Grand Central : The True Story of Jacqueline Kennedy's Fight for an American Icon

The little-known true story of Jackie Kennedy's role in saving New York City's Grand Central Terminal is revealed in this dramatic and beautiful picture

• UPC: 55108823
• Rating: 4.0

Nemesis : The True Story of Aristotle Onassis, Jackie O, and the Love Triangle That Brought Down the Kennedys

A longtime investigative journalist uncovers one of the great untold stories of twentieth-century international intrigue, and the secrets it has held until now. Shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis and Bobby Kennedy, two of the world′s richest

• UPC: 3390442
• Rating: 5.0

Jackie's Girl : My Life with the Kennedy Family

An endearing coming-of-age memoir by a young woman who spent thirteen years as Jackie Kennedy's personal assistant and occasional nanny. And the lessons about life and love she learned from the glamorous first lady. In

• UPC: 55217002
• Rating: 4.333

Five Presidents : My Extraordinary Journey with Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford

Originally published in hardcover in 2016 by Gallery

• UPC: 53597177
• Rating: 4.0

The Fabulous Bouvier Sisters : The Tragic and Glamorous Lives of Jackie and Lee

A poignant, evocative, and wonderfully gossipy account of the two sisters who represented style and class above all else--Jackie Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwill--from the authors of Furious Love.When sixty-four-year-old Jackie Kennedy Onassis died in

• UPC: 438965588