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Jackie, Janet & Lee
Jackie, Janet & Lee: The Secret Lives of Janet Auchincloss and Her Daughters, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwill | J. Randy Taraborrelli
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*THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* 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 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. If the Bouvier women personified beauty, style and fashion, it was their lust for money and status that drove them to seek out powerful men, no matter what the cost to themselves or to those they stepped on in their ruthless climb to the top. 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 mother.
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Pamwurtzler
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Wow that was a ton of detail chronicling the lives & relationships between Jackie O, her mom, & her sister. It was interesting, but I always wonder how much of it was really true. If you saw my last post, you might be glad to know that the last 20% of this book was footnotes. I‘ll give this a pick, leaning toward so-so. #LitsyAtoZ #LetterJ

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Pamwurtzler
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I‘m wondering how many parts this book has. It‘s got a TON of detail about Jackie Kennedy & her mom and sister. #unexpectedchunkster

BarbaraBB That‘s why I don‘t read ebooks 😉😘 5y
Pamwurtzler @BarbaraBB But think how heavy that real book must be! I keep thinking there will be photos but noooooo. 😂 5y
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anwade88
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I‘m exhausted already with all the drama in this book... 😓

This book is making me think of how extremely functional my family may just be after all.
Interesting but rife with drama and cattiness. 😣