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Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis: The Untold Story
Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis: The Untold Story | Barbara Leaming
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The instant New York Times and USA Today bestseller! The untold story of how one woman's life was changed forever in a matter of seconds by a horrific trauma. Barbara Leaming's extraordinary and deeply sensitive biography is the first book to document Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis' brutal, lonely and valiant thirty-one year struggle with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) that followed JFK's assassination. Here is the woman as she has never been seen before. In heartrending detail, we witness a struggle that unfolded at times before our own eyes, but which we failed to understand. Leaming's biography also makes clear the pattern of Jackie's life as a whole. We see how a spirited young woman's rejection of a predictable life led her to John F. Kennedy and the White House, how she sought to reconcile the conflicts of her marriage and the role she was to play, and how the trauma of her husband's murder which left her soaked in his blood and brains led her to seek a very different kind of life from the one she'd previously sought. A life story that has been scrutinized countless times, seen here for the first time as the serious and important story that it is. A story for our times at a moment when we as a nation need more than ever to understand the impact of trauma.
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Leaming‘s stress on Jackie's PTSD was illuminating at first, but was repeated so often it got gimmicky, but I liked the emphasis on Jackie's forties & onward, when she was a conservationist who saved NYC's Grand Central Railway when it was threatened with destruction and saw through notable books in her editor role. These kinds of details make it valuable overall, since it is, admittedly, a well-trodden story that is difficult to make fresh.

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This was a really well told biography that focused on Jacqueline and her life. She has a very interesting history and I don't think she should ever be defined by her marriage to JFK.

bitterbear She was also a huge reader... ♡♡ My favorite photograph of her.. she's on a plane reading a paperback of on the road... ♡ 8y
beagle.mama I love her and agree with you that she should not be defined by her marriage. I know she was an editor. I'd love to read books she edited. I think editors' names should be on book covers. 8y
TheNextBook @bitterbear @beagle.mama This book does a really good job looking at her life before JFK, how she was affected by his death and how she chose to live after. 8y
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Reviewsbylola Sounds fascinating. 8y
TheNextBook Oohh @rubyslippersreads I hadn'r heard of that one. It looks good. 8y
bitterbear @rubyslippersreads two simulator books came out at the same time.. I really liked this. 8y
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This book... I liked it because the story was really about her. What was life like before and after JFK? It looked at her as a person and worked to answer some really interesting questions about her. I was engaged the entire time.

Leelee08 ❤️ 8y
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I adore Jackie. This book portrayed her as a survivor. After both her marriages, she went on to have a successful career of her own when she really didn't need to.

shawnmooney I adore her too! I devoured my first biography of her when I was about 13 years old… :-) 8y
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Not sure about this book yet but I thought it would be interesting to read at the same time as Cleopatra.

ThomasHewlett Never thought about pairing biographies before. I'm going to try that! 8y
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