Dear Mrs. Kennedy - Softcover

Jay Mulvaney

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 1250041732 ISBN 13: 9781250041739

Publisher: St Martin's Griffin, 2013

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In the weeks and months following the assassination of her husband, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy received more than one million letters. The impact of President Kennedy's death was so immense that people from every station in life wrote to her, sharing their feelings of sympathy, sorrow, and hope. With letters from political luminaries such as Winston Churchill, Martin Luther King Jr., and Charles De Gaulle; Hollywood stars like Lauren Bacall, Vivian Leigh, and Gene Kelly; foreign dignitaries including Queen Elizabeth II, the King and Queen of Greece, and the Prince of Monaco; and celebrities like Ezra Pound, Noel Coward, Babe Paley, Langston Hughes, Oleg Cassini, Josephine Baker. This is more than just a compendium of letters. Dear Mrs. Kennedy uses these many voices to tell the unforgettable story of those fateful four days in November, when the world was struck with shock and sadness. Filled with emotion, patriotism, and insight, the letters are a poignant time capsule of one of the seminal events of the twentieth century. Dear Mrs. Kennedy offers a diverse portrait not only of the aftermath of the assassination, but of the Kennedy mystique that continues to captivate the world.

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In Praise of Dear Mrs. Kennedy. I thought I would never read another Kennedy book.... Anyone who cares about American history and the heart of the American people will want to read Dear Mrs. Kennedy.---Laurence Leamer, bestselling author of The Kennedy Women and Sons of Camelot. You will not be able to put down this deeply moving, inspiring book.---Donald Spoto, author of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis: A Life. A book for every bedside...These carefully selected letters of condolence take us back to a moment in history we would do well to revisit. ---Frances Kiernan, author of The Last Mrs. Astor. A profound reflection into the eternal questions about God, the meaning of life, and how we as mere mortals deal with senseless, inexplicable tragedy.---Thomas Maier, author of The Kennedys: America's Emeralds Kings. Often-intense revelations of personal emotion...in reaction to an event that truly shocked the world.- Carl Sferrazza Anthony, author of The Kennedy White House --Various

About the Author:

JAY MULVANEY, the author of Kennedy Weddings and Diana and Jackie and an Emmy Award--winning writer and producer, was once an office boy for Senator Edward M. Kennedy.PAUL DE ANGELIS has been an editor, editorial director, and editor-in-chief at such publishing companies as St. Martin's Press, E. P. Dutton, and Kodansha America.

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