First published 2023
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis divided her existence into three distinct realms: public, private, and secret. Kennedy historian J. Randy Taraborrelli spent three decades conducting hundreds of interviews with Jackie's friends, family members, and lovers to uncover the woman behind the icon. Drawing from previously unreleased JFK Library materials, he reveals Jackie's reluctance before marrying Jack Kennedy and her secret scheme to avoid the White House. The biography exposes her plan to confront Maria Callas about the affair with Aristotle Onassis, the family betrayal behind the scandalous nude photographs in the 1970s, and the true nature of her relationship with Maurice Templesman. Taraborrelli documents the experimental cancer treatments that marked Jackie's final battle and the physician who refused to risk imprisonment to save her. This portrait captures a woman whose contradictions and imperfections made her more compelling than any idealized version.
Genres: biography, 20th-century, biography-memoir, 21st-century
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: family-secrets, intimate-portrait
Period: 20th Century, 21st Century
528 pages · Hardcover · St. Martin's Press