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A Very Private Woman: The Life and Unsolved Murder of Presidential Mistress Mary Meyer - Hardcover

Burleigh, Nina

 
9780553106299: A Very Private Woman: The Life and Unsolved Murder of Presidential Mistress Mary Meyer

Synopsis

A painstakingly researched, intriguing biography of Mary Pinchot Meyer details her unhappy marriage to a high-level CIA agent, her romance with President John F. Kennedy, and the mystery surrounding her still-unsolved murder. 30,000 first printing.

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About the Author

Nina Burleigh's articles have appeared in Time, The Washington Post,The Chicago Tribune, and New York Magazine. She lives in New York.


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From the Inside Flap

nduring mysteries of recent decades was the murder of Mary Pinchot Meyer, the well-born, beautiful, rebellious, and intelligent ex-wife of a CIA official, who was killed on a quiet Georgetown towpath in 1964. Mary Meyer was a mistress of JFK, and after her death, news that she had kept a diary set off a tense search for the document by CIA spymaster James Jesus Angelton as well as Mary's brother-in-law, journalist Ben Bradlee. But the crime was never solved, and today her life and death are still a source of fascination, as Nina Burleigh will reveal in a book that looks at a heady, sometimes glamorous period in the nation's capitol, and at a woman who embodied the grace and turbulence of her times.

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