Jackie: public, private, secret - j. randy taraborrelli

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, readers will become intimately familiar with all three.

New insights from the book include: - Jackies cold feet before her wedding to Jack Kennedy and her secret plan to avoid moving into the White House with him.

- Jackies 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 Jackies life with experimental cancer treatments, and the doctor who wouldnt 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.