READING JACKIE(ISBN=) 英文原版

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis never wrote a memoir, but she told
her life story and revealed herself in intimate ways through the
nearly 100 books she brought into print during the last two decades
of her life as an editor at Viking and Doubleday. Based on archives
and interviews with Jackie’s authors, colleagues, and friends,
Reading Jackie mines this significant period of her life to reveal
both the serious and the mischievous woman underneath the glamorous
public image. 
    Though Jackie had a reputation for avoiding
publicity, she willingly courted controversy in her books. She was
the first editor to commission a commercially-successful book
telling the story of Thomas Jefferson’s relationship with his
female slave.  Her publication of Gelsey Kirkland’s attack on
dance icon George Balanchine caused another storm. Jackie rarely
spoke of her personal life, but many of her books ran parallel to,
echoed, and emerged from her own experience. She was the editor
behind bestsellers on the assassinations of Tsar Nicholas II and
John Lennon, and in another book she paid tribute to the allure of
Marilyn Monroe and Maria Callas. Her other projects take us into
territory she knew well: journeys to Egypt and India, explorations
of the mysteries of female beauty and media exploitation, into the
minds of photographers, art historians, and the designers at
Tiffany & Co.
    Many Americans regarded Jackie as the paragon of
grace, but few knew her as the woman sitting on her office floor
laying out illustrations, or flying to California to persuade
Michael Jackson to write his autobiography. Reading Jackie provides
a compelling behind-the-scenes look at Jackie at work: how she
commissioned books and nurtured authors, as well as how she helped
to shape stories that spoke to her strongly. Jackie is remembered
today for her marriages to JFK and to Aristotle Onassis, but her
real legacy is the books that reveal the tastes, recollections, and
passions of an independent woman.

WILLIAM KUHN is a biographer and historian. He is the author of
three previous books, including, most recently, a controversial
biography, The Politics of Pleasure: A Portrait of Benjamin
Disraeli. His Henry and Mary Ponsonby: Life at the Court of
Queen Victoria was a BBC Radio Four Book of the Week read by
actor Geoffrey Palmer.

AUTHOR’S NOTE
Prologue
Chapter l
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Epilogue
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
BOOKS EDITED BY JACQUELINE KENNEDY ONASSIS
JACQUELINE KENNEDY ONASSIS AS AN AUTHOR
SOURCES
NOTES
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
ILLUSTRATION CREDITS
INDEX