Eight Friends of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

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Summary

These are my short stories about interviewing people who knew Jackie well.

I met one in a Midtown club, another in an apartment painted all black, a third at home in what used to be a ballroom. It was like exploring a lost, pre-internet world of class and cruelty, of big-shouldered suits and brash magazines.

It was also a world where people spoke one-on-one about Jackie quietly and via oblique remarks.

If my conversations with Jackie's friends yield a more critical view of her, they also take us inside her day-to-day life and make us wonder how she survived it as long as she did.

The eight are:

1. Nancy Tuckerman, a boarding school friend

2. Nan Talese, a rival at work

3. Louis Auchincloss, a waspish novelist

4. Sarah Giles, a VANITY FAIR insider

5. Ruth Ansel, an iconic art director

6. Rosamond Bernier, a lecturer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

7. Francis Mason, an expert from the ballet world

8. Edith Welch, a Harvard professor's wife

I interviewed more than 80 people for Reading Jackie more than a decade ago. These are the most revealing of those talks now written up here for the first time. They're all firsthand recollections of Jackie, but they're also close looks at her friends in person, their houses, their clothes, their conversation. This is how it felt however briefly to be inside Jackie's world.

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    • 1 A Boarding School Friend (Eight Friends of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis)
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    • Release date: 08-11-22
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    • 2 A Rival at Work & 3 A Waspish Novelist (Eight Friends of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis)
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    • 4 A Vanity Fair Insider, 5 An Iconic Art Director, & 6 A Cultural Buccaneer (Eight Friends of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis)
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    • 7 An Expert from the Ballet World & 8 A Harvard Professor's Wife (Eight Friends of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis)
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    • Release date: 09-12-22
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