Jacqueline Kennedy : Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy - Hardcover

Kennedy, Caroline; Beschloss, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1401324258 ISBN 13: 9781401324254

Publisher: HYPERION, 2011

Synopsis

In 1964, Jacqueline Kennedy recorded seven historic interviews about her life with John F. Kennedy. Now, for the first time, they can be heard and read in this deluxe, illustrated book and 8-CD set. Shortly after President John F. Kennedyâ€TMs assassination, with a nation deep in mourning and the world looking on in stunned disbelief, Jacqueline Kennedy found the strength to set aside her own personal grief for the sake of posterity and begin the task of documenting and preserving her husbandâ€TMs legacy. In January of 1964, she and Robert F. Kennedy approved a planned oral-history project that would capture their first-hand accounts of the late President as well as the recollections of those closest to him throughout his extraordinary political career. For the rest of her life, the famously private Jacqueline Kennedy steadfastly refused to discuss her memories of those years, but beginning that March, she fulfilled her obligation to future generations of Americans by sitting down...

About this title

About the Author:

Caroline Kennedy is the editor of the New York Times bestselling A Patriot's Handbook, Profiles in Courage for Our Time, The Best-Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, A Family of Poems, A Family Christmas, and the coauthor of The Right to Privacy and In Our Defense: The Bill of Rights in Action. She serves as the Vice Chair of the Fund for Public Schools in New York City and President of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation. She lives in New York City.

About this edition

• Publisher: HYPERION
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1401324258
• ISBN 13: 9781401324254
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 400