About this Book

A Portrait of an American Icon

Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis-better known as Jackie O. to the tabloids, "the deb" to the Kennedy clan, and the 35th First Lady to historians-is easily one of the most recognizable Presidential wives. She remains the model of the proper American woman. But what was Jackie O. hiding behind those big, dark shades?

&break;From her New York society upbringing to her time in the White House to her days spent as a Doubleday editor, this is the ultimate biography of a woman everyone recognized but few knew. Did you know that:

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• Her first job was as the "Inquiring Camera Girl" for the Washington Times-Herald?

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• Before she started dating Jack Kennedy, she hadn't even voted in a national election?

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• She was the only family member strong enough to remove Robert Kennedy from life-support measures after he was shot?

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• She asked Rose Kennedy for her blessing before she married Aristotle Onassis?

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She was American royalty and is now an American icon. The Everything Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Book delivers everything you always wanted to know about this captivating woman.