by Peter Evans (Undifferentiated)
First published 1989
Aristotle Onassis sits across from author Peter Evans, sharing stories that will reshape how the world sees the shipping magnate. Evans spent years gathering these conversations and tracking down everyone who crossed paths with Onassis. The women who loved him, the politicians he influenced, the enemies who fought him all contribute pieces to this portrait. Onassis emerges as a man of stark contradictions. He orchestrated deals that shifted the balance of power between nations. He pursued the most desired women of his era while his family relationships crumbled around him. His feud with Stavros Niarchos, once his brother-in-law and always his business rival, consumed decades of his life. Evans shows how Onassis manipulated governments from behind closed doors, using his wealth and connections to bend history to his will. Yet the same man who could topple ministers struggled to connect with his own children. The book strips away the mythology to reveal the complex human being beneath the legend.
Genres: biography, historical-fiction, 20th-century, business
Vibes: intimate, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: power-dynamics, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Greece
Period: 20th-century
Hardcover · Random House Value Publishing