Jackie Public, Private, Secret, J. Randy Taraborrelli
Jackie Public, Private, Secret, J. Randy Taraborrelli
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Jackie: Public, Private, Secret

Bestseller

Author: J. Randy Taraborrelli

Narrator: Jane Oppenheimer

Unabridged: 16 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/18/2023


Synopsis

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, listeners will become intimately familiar with all three.

New insights 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.

A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's Press.

About J. Randy Taraborrelli

J. Randy Taraborrelli is the author of over 20 biographies, most of which have become New York Times bestsellers, including: Jackie, Ethel, Joan: Women of Camelot; After Camelot: A Personal History of the Kennedy Family 1968 to the Present, which was adapted as a mini-series for Reelz; and Jackie, Janet & Lee: The Secret Lives of Janet Auchincloss and Her Daughters, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwill, presently being adapted for television by Taraborrelli. His most recent book, Jackie: Public, Private, Secret, debuted at number three on the New York Times bestseller list.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Darla on October 29, 2023

What's the point of biography if it doesn't reveal secrets?~Jackie Kennedy Onassis I love all things Jackie and this new biography gives a comprehensive and at times controversial view of our beloved first lady. My parents had a book about Camelot and the Kennedy years. I would spend hours studying t......more

Goodreads review by Lucy on July 22, 2023

If you’re a true Jackie Kennedy fan you’ll fall in love with her all over again. She’s my favorite First Lady of all time with good reason. By the end of the book you’ll realize she’s a flawed human like the rest of us but only better! I have collected books on her all my life. This is a good one. S......more

Goodreads review by Steve on December 08, 2023

[URL not allowed]-1lp The product of hundreds of interviews conducted over multiple decades, Taraborrelli's biography of Jackie Kennedy is surprisingly intimate and incredibly revealing. But it is a personal, behind-the-scenes dissection of her life, not a biography that reviews world events from......more

Goodreads review by KOMET on October 22, 2023

JACKIE: Public, Private, Secret is an extensive, engaging, comprehensive, and at times entertaining biography of one of the 20th century's most famous women, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis. Reading this book helped to add to my understanding of an intriguing, perplexing, and extraordinary woman......more

Goodreads review by Thomas on September 03, 2024

After Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis's death in 1994, many in her family and long time friends finally revealed the public, private and secret life of our country's most mysterious First Lady. Mr. Taraborrelli's account, at times, comes across as more gossipy than historical fact. But the reader......more


Quotes

“Taraborrelli’s nearly 25 years of research and interviewing sheds new light on every phase of Jacqueline Bouvier’s life . . . An absorbing and comprehensive account of one of the most remarkable women of the 20th century.” —Kirkus Reviews

“Readable and deeply researched, [Jackie] is a refreshingly complex portrait of a woman too often defined by her relationships with men. Readers who enjoyed the author’s other Kennedy biographies will not be able to put this down.” —Publishers Weekly