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An icon of style and culture, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis continues to fascinate millions even after her death. Jacqueline Bouvier explores the origins of Jackie's elusive legend. Focusing on her early years, from childhood to her marriage to John F. Kennedy, this personal portrait recreates the milieu and family life of these formative years, revealing the source of Jackie's highly developed aesthetic sense and extraordinary strength of character.
Born just weeks before his famous first cousin, John Davis grew up alongside Jackie. The acknowledged Bouvier historian, Davis draws on his personal recollections to take us into the heart of America's most privileged settings: the gilded townhouses and ballrooms of New York City. the grand estates and equestrian circles of East Hampton, and the mansion society of Newport.
Illustrated with vintage family photos, many never before published, Jacqueline Bouvier evokes the roots of a young Jacqueline whose style and courage would captivate millions worldwide. We see the source of her strong sense of aristocratic lineage, developed in Jackie by her beloved grandfather. We witness her penchant for rogues, foreshadowing her later marriages to the dashing but reckless JFK and the notorious Aristotle Onassis.
There are new insights into Jackie's intense relationship with her father, John V. "Black Jack" Bouvier, based on his previously unpublished letters to her. Davis also chronicles the painful years following her parents' divorce, Jackie's years at Vassar and the Sorbonne, her life as a photojournalist in Washington, D.C., and the courtship of John F. Kennedy, culminating in the "Wedding of the Year."
The only memoir devoted exclusively to this pivotal early period in Jackie's life, Jacqueline Bouvier offers a rare inside look at the people, places, and events that created this most public, yet private, personality
John H. Davis (New York, New York) is Jacqueline Onassis's first cousin and the bestselling author of The Bouviers, The Kennedys, and The Guggenheims.
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