Jackie: Public, Private, Secret

From New York Times bestselling author of Jackie, Janet & Lee comes a fresh and often startling look at the life of the legendary former first lady, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.

Based on hundreds of interviews with friends, family, and lovers over a thirty-year period-as well as previously unreleased material from the JFK Library-Kennedy historian J. Randy Taraborrelli paints an unforgettable new portrait of a woman whose flaws and contradictions only serve to make her even more iconic. \”I have three lives,\” Jackie told a former lover, \”public, private and secret.\” In this revealing biography, readers will become intimately familiar with all three.

New insights from the book include:
* Jackie’s cold feet before her wedding to Jack Kennedy and her secret plan to avoid moving into the White House with him.
* Jackie’s plan to meet with the woman with whom her husband, Aristotle Onassis, was again having an affair, Maria Callas.and why, in the end, she decided against it.
* The truth about the nude photos of Jackie which scandalized her in the 1970s.and which family member had betrayed her by selling them.
* Her unusual relationship with Maurice Templesman, which was never what outsiders believed it to be.
* The never-before-reported, last-ditch efforts to save Jackie’s life with experimental cancer treatments, and the doctor who wouldn’t risk jail time in order to treat her.

Twenty-nine years after her death and sixty years after the assassination of President Kennedy, Jackie delivers the last word on one of the most famous women in the world.

Format: Hardback
Pages: 528
Imprint: St Martins US
Publication date: 18/07/2023