Enjoy The Season

A Girl With A Book

A History Lesson

"Job Vacancy"

Have A Good Day

Thomas Merton (1915-1968)

Anagram

How To Breathe Underwater

Home Truth

The Nobel Prize Winners Map

Nothing That Is Worth Knowing

Avoid Arguments

Elif Şafak

America's Queen: The Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis by Sarah Bradford

Paperback:  Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis has captivated the American public for more than five decades.  From her introduction to the world as "debutante of the year" in 1947 to her untimely death in 1994, she has truly remained America's answer to royalty.

The definitive biography of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, America's Queen (2000), is a fascinating account of an extraordinary life.  Jackie Bouvier's privileged upbringing instilled rigid self-control, while her expedient marriage into the Kennedy clan consolidated her determination.

Jackie Kennedy was a twentieth-century icon of glamour, elegance and grace.  As the beautiful young wife of President John F Kennedy, she was adored, her style imitated across the world.

Using remarkable new sources - including in-depth interviews with Jackie's sister, Lee Radziwell - Sarah Bradford has written a timely celebration of a life that was more private than commonly supposed.

Revealing new testimony from many of the couple's closest friends show the profound complexities both of this very public relationship, including the affairs that threatened it, and of her controversial marriage to Aristotle Onassis.

Here is the private Jackie - neglected wife, vigilant mother, obsessive shopper and working widow - whose fascinating nature is illuminated by all that Bradford has discovered.

About the author:  Sarah Bradford is a historian and biographer.  Her previous books include Cesare Borgia (1976), Disraeli (1982), winner of the New York Times Book of the Year, Princess Grace (1984), George VI (1989), Sacheverell Sitwell (1993) and Elizabeth:  A Biography of Her Majesty the Queen (1996).  She lives in London and is married to the 8th Viscount Bangor.