Jackie as Editor : The Literary Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
ISBN: 9780312591939 | 0312591934
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date: 1/4/2011
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Everyone remembers the glamorous First Lady Jackie Kennedy and the equally glamorous Mrs. Aristotle Onassis. But Jackie worked as an editor for nearly two decades, signing and publishing more than 100 titles for Viking and Doubleday. Best-selling author Lawrence, three of whose books were edited by Jackie, tells this story. Not a celeb bio, or at least not quite; with a 75,000-copy first printing.
An absorbing chronicle of a much overlooked chapter in Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis's life--her nineteen-year editorial c... MORE
An absorbing chronicle of a much overlooked chapter in Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis's life--her nineteen-year editorial c... MORE
| Introduction: Jackie's Secret Garden | p. 1 |
| A Special Destiny | p. 7 |
| In the Russian Style, by Way of Paris | p. 35 |
| A Tale of Two Houses | p. 58 |
| An Office with a Window | p. 99 |
| Unseen Vistas and Avant-Gardensp121 | |
| Moonwalk and the Power of Myth | p. 145 |
| Bon Courage | p. 180 |
| When Life Comes First | p. 208 |
| All Will Be Well | ... MOREp. 232 |
| Books Published by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis | p. 271 |
| Sources | p. 275 |
| Bibliography and Archives | p. 293 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 299 |
| Index | p. 303 |
| Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved. |
GREG LAWRENCE is the author or coauthor of seven previous books, including Colored Lights (with John Kander and Fred Ebb), Dance With Demons, Time Steps (with Donna McKechnie), the New York Times bestselling Dancing on My Grave, The Shape of Love, and The Little Ballerina and her Dancing Horse, the last three edited by Jackie Onassis.
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