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Publishers Weekly Review of Jackie: Public, Private, Secret

Former first lady Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis once told a lover that she had three lives (“public, private, and secret”),­ according to this gossipy biography. Drawing on interviews and previously unpublished material from the JFK Library, Taraborrelli (Jackie, Ethel, and Joan) documents Jackie’s reservations about marrying JFK when he was a senator from Massachusetts; the … Read more
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GRACE & STEEL – KIRKUS REVIEW

“A glossy dissection of the women members of a family that has loomed large over decades of U.S politics.”
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NY TIMES RAVE: JACKIE, JANET & LEE

“Taraborrelli is highly effective at describing this sisterly dynamic. [But] for all the sisters’ dramatics, the true star of this particular show is decidedly neither the directionless Lee nor the determined Jackie. It is, in fact, the third figure in the book: Janet Bouvier Auchincloss. Taraborrelli brings her to splendid, renewed life. His trick of … Read more

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