Maybe America’s queen had always been a bitch.” The author also offers discerning observations, including Jackie’s pulling Bobby Kennedy aside to say, “America’s going to the dogs.

Kennedy’s womanizing Onassis and Jackie had a 170-clause marriage contract Jackie enjoyed a “champagne-tastes” hedonism, “so maybe Camelot wasn’t such a magical era. Still, upon Jacqueline’s own death in 1994, as if by some silent agreement in the world press, Wayne Koestenbaum noted that “her marriage to Onassis was erased with the absoluteness of Soviet regimes banishing dissidents from the historical record.” Kennedy-so she was known in her last years, the Onassis name deleted-was eminently gossipworthy, and Eaton, who writes in a breezy style, doesn’t refrain from throwing out red meat: Jackie complained about John F. She made some curious choices in life, including, by the author’s account, her marriage to Aristotle Onassis, which was not happy, as reflected by the comparatively small sum of money she received when he died. The next is that her long-stated ambition was “not to be a housewife.” While she had her foibles-including, Eaton chronicles, the ability to whirlwind her way across a tony boutique in a few minutes and rack up a $100,000 bill-she was also a person of considerable substance.

The first thing to know is that Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis (1929-1994) pronounced her name Jack-leen. A pop-culture study of the woman who was once known around the world.

Finding Jackie by Oline Eaton