The Years of Bliss. The Years of Dismay. The Divorce. The Remarriage. A Divided Life. The Death of Grampy Jack. Vassar and The Sorbonne. One Special Summer. The Inquiring Camera Girl. "The Wedding of the Year." Acknowledgments. Photo Credits. Index.
JOHN H. DAVIS is the author of the critically acclaimed The Bouviers, The Kennedys, and The Guggenheims. He lives in New York City.
This very evocative book by the late Mrs. Onassis's cousin is as much a nostalgic look at a vanished way of life as it is a memoir of Jacqueline Bouvier from her birth in 1929 until her marriage to Senator John F. Kennedy in September 1953. The author's access to family papers helped fill in the details of an enormously privileged yet often unhappy childhood, in which her parents' divorce left the young girl torn between the father she adored and an extremely controlling mother who was jealous of that relationship. Davis recounts gossip, but readers expecting nothing but dirt will be disappointed. This is instead a fond look at a beautiful and intelligent woman who was always something of an enigma, even to her own family; Davis does shed light on the events that helped make Jacqueline such a private person. This brief memoir includes beautiful photographs, some never before published. Recommended for libraries where there is an interest in Jacqueline Onassis and the Kennedys.‘Elizabeth Mellett, Brookline P.L., Mass.
Jackie's cousin shares childhood memories. (July)
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