Jackie as editor : the literary life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis /

Jackie as editor : the literary life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Lawrence, Greg.
Edition:	1st ed.
Imprint:	New York : Thomas Dunne Books, 2011.
Description:	x, 322 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy, -- 1929-1994 Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy, -- 1929-1994. Book editors -- United States -- Biography. Editors -- United States -- Biography. Presidents' spouses -- United States -- Biography. Book editors. Editors. Presidents' spouses. United States. Biography.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8289548

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ISBN:	9780312591939 (alk. paper) 0312591934 (alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	An absorbing chronicle of a much overlooked chapter in Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis's life, her nineteen year editorial career. History remembers Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis as the consummate first lady, the nation's tragic widow, the millionaire's wife, and, of course, the quintessential embodiment of elegance. Her biographers, however, skip over an equally important stage in her life: her nearly twenty year long career as a book editor. This book focuses exclusively on this remarkable woman's editorial career. At the age of forty six, one of the most famous women in the world went to work for the first time in twenty two years. The author, who had three of his books edited by Jackie, draws from interviews with more than 125 of her former collaborators and acquaintances in the publishing world to examine one of the twentieth century's most enduring subjects of fascination through a new angle: her previously untouted skill in the career she chose. Over the last third of her life, Jackie would master a new industry, weather a very public professional scandal, and shepherd more than a hundred books through the increasingly corporate halls of Viking and Doubleday, publishing authors as diverse as Diana Vreeland, Louis Auchincloss, George Plimpton, Bill Moyers, Dorothy West, Naguib Mahfouz, and even Michael Jackson. This work gives intimate new insights into the life of a complex and enigmatic woman who found fulfillment through her creative career during book publishing's legendary Golden Age, and, away from the public eye, quietly defined life on her own terms--From publisher.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Jackie's Secret Garden
1. A Special Destiny
2. In the Russian Style, by Way of Paris
3. A Tale of Two Houses
4. An Office with a Window
5. Unseen Vistas and Avant-Gardensp121
6. Moonwalk and the Power of Myth
7. Bon Courage
8. When Life Comes First
9. All Will Be Well
Books Published by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Sources
Bibliography and Archives
Acknowledgments
Index