Jacqueline Onassis Kennedy

 
America's Queen: A Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
by Sarah Bradford
(Hardcover)

As We Remember Her: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis in the Words of Her Family and Friends
by Carl Sferrazza Anthony
(Hardcover)

The Best-Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
by Caroline Kennedy (Editor)
(Hardcover)
 

Jacqueline Kennedy : The White House Years: Selections from the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum by Hamish Bowles (Editor), Metropolitan Museum of Art Did the clothes make Jackie, or did Jackie make the clothes? Decide for yourself: Jacqueline Kennedy: The White House Years is a stunning catalog of some of Jacqueline Kennedy's most important dresses as worn during her years as first lady of the United States. As visually sleek and elegant as Mrs. Kennedy herself, the book offers a beautiful analysis of the stunning, simple outfits that typified the Jackie style and brought a breath of sleek modernity to the White House after the somewhat frumpy fussiness of previous first lady Bess Truman. Released to coincide with the 40th anniversary of Kennedy's "emergence" as a style icon, the book presents an eclectic selection of suits, evening dresses, daywear, and accessories from the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum collection. Divided into cities where each item was first worn, the gowns, suits, and dresses are first presented alone in a full-page color photo. Each is then accompanied by various photos of Jackie wearing the item and detailed design notes, history, and anecdotes behind the outfit.  These photos give a wonderful context to the clothes, and it's clear that Jackie's carriage and persona injected life into these garments--which sometimes appear markedly different from what one might deduce as each item's "personality" when simply viewing it alone. For example, a pale cream embroidered silk Givenchy evening gown looks dull and somewhat dowdy when seen alone, but the accompanying photograph of Jackie wearing it while cuddling a newborn John Kennedy Jr. transforms the dress into something feminine and timeless. Or a very simple, innocently pretty pink shantung evening gown by Guy Douvier becomes arrestingly sexy when she wears it with nothing but white gloves and a Palm Beach tan. Contextualizing and interpreting Kennedy's style is an important part of this book. Featured are essays on Jackie and her effect on the world of style by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Kennedy friend Rachel Lambert Mellon, and the book's author and Vogue editor at large, Hamish Bowles. Jacqueline Kennedy: The White House Years accompanies an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. --Marisa Lencioni, Amazon.co.uk Hardcover: 206 pages Bulfinch Press; ISBN: 0821227459;

Jackie Style
by Pamela Clarke Keogh
From the author of the bestselling Audrey Style

Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis was known by many names, but to us, she is Jackie. And whether she liked it or not, she was, and still is, the most famous woman in the world.

"No one else looked like her, spoke like her, wrote like her, or was so original in the way she did things," said her brother-in-law Senator Edward Kennedy. Her style -- what made her Jackie -- has been emulated, imitated, even occasionally reviled, but never fully examined. For the first time, this biography details the singular life that made Jackie an icon and contributed so greatly to her enduring appeal. Drawing on original interviews with Valentino, Hubert de Givenchy, Manolo Blahnik, and Oleg Cassini, as well as close friends C. Z. Guest, George Plimpton, and John Loring, and family members such as Joan Kennedy, Hugh D. Auchincloss, and John Davis, this compelling volume brings to life the private Jackie her family and friends loved.

With one hundred rare color and black-and-white photographs and sketches, and never-before-published personal letters, memos, and essays, Jackie Style re-creates not only Jackie's extraordinary history -- fashion being just one part of it -- but the world she came from, the White House she revived, the husband and children she adored, the causes she supported, and, finally, the life she chose to lead.
Hardcover: 256 pages
HarperCollins; ISBN: 0060199520; 1 Ed edition (April 24, )

Jackie: The Clothes of Camelot
by Jay Mulvaney, Dominick Dunne
Includes a large collection of images of some 200 of Jackie's outfits, many rare or previously unpublished.
Hardcover: 194 pages
St. Martin's Press; ISBN: 0312281978;

Jackie: Behind the Myth ()
VHS
Jackie O. never wrote an autobiography. "Life comes first," she said. This two-hour documentary tries to find the Jackie behind the headlines and deftly uses the press coverage she came to scorn to create a full-bodied profile. Jackie seems to be guiding the video through excerpts from her journal, which a narrator gives voice to. The film footage is focused on her--her 1953 wedding to John F. Kennedy, being interviewed in French, leading a television tour of the White House, riding an elephant while visiting Nehru, or later in life campaigning to save Grand Central Station. The production also covers familiar turf--the Kennedy and King assassinations, her marriage to Onassis--but it is fascinating to hear the words she wrote about these events and the interviews from big names who knew her then. Personal historical documents provide poignance, such as a poem she wrote for JFK on their first anniversary. "The trouble with me, I'm an outsider, and that's a very hard thing to be in American life," she wrote. This video is a rare, intelligent glimpse of one of the most famous and private women of our time. --Valerie J. Nelson - Amazon.com

Mrs. Kennedy: The Missing History of the Kennedy Years
by Barbara Leaming
(Hardcover)

Jackie: Beyond the Myth of Camelot
by K. L. Kelleher
Paperback: 216 pages
Xlibris Corporation; ISBN: 0738831174; (July 1, )

Woman Named Jackie: An Intimate Biography of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
by David C. Heymann, C. David Heymann
(Hardcover - May 1989)

In the Russian Style
by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (Editor)
Listed under Russian History

Designing Camelot : The Kennedy White House Restoration
by James A. Abbott, et al
(Hardcover)

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Paper Dolls
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A Thousand Days of Magic : Dressing Jacqueline Kennedy for the White House by Oleg Cassini Hardcover from Rizzoli

Young Jackie: Photographs of Jackie Bouvier
by Bert Morgan (Photographer), Olivia Harrison (Introduction)
(Hardcover)

Janet and Jackie: The Story of a Mother and Her Daughter, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
by Jan Pottker
(Hardcover)
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Jackie Under My Skin: Interpreting an Icon
by Wayne Koestenbaum
(Hardcover)
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Cooking for Madam : Recipes and Reminiscences from the Home of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
by Marta Sgubin, et al
(Hardcover)
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