Jackie as Editor: The Literary Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
10 best books like Jackie as Editor: The Literary Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (Greg Lawrence): The Best Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy-Onassis, Vision of Beauty: The Story of Sarah Breedlove Walker, The Secret Memoirs of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: A Novel, Grace and Power: The Private World of the Kennedy White House, America's Queen: The Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy, The White House Years: Selections from the John F. Kennedy Library & Museum, Jackie After O: One Remarkable Year When Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Defied Expectations and Rediscovered Her Dreams, Caroline's Comets: A True Story, Reading Jackie: Her Autobiography in Books, The Ghost Runner: The Tragedy of the Man They Couldn't Stop
The Best Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy-Onassis
| Author | Caroline Kennedy |
| ISBN | 0786868090 |
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis loved literature, especially poetry. Once you can express yourself, she wrote, you can tell the world what you want from it. Now, Caroline Kennedy shares her mothers favorite poems by such renowned authors as William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, e.e. cummings, and Robert...
Vision of Beauty: The Story of Sarah Breedlove Walker
| Author | Kathryn Lasky |
| ISBN | 0763618349 |
Candlewick Press has recently reissued in paperback Kathryn Lasky's biography of Sarah Breedlove Walker, originally published in 2000. In a brief 48 pages, Lasky chronicles the life of this remarkable woman, born into poverty to former slaves, who became a highly successful entrepreneur and...
The Secret Memoirs of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: A Novel
Who was Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis? She was a wife, mother, artist, editor, and world traveler. A bright young woman who rose to unparalleled celebrity. One of the world's most inspiring and influential women of her day, she has become arguably the most important female icon of all time. Yet she also...
Grace and Power: The Private World of the Kennedy White House
| Author | Sally Bedell Smith |
| ISBN | 0345484975 |
New York Times bestselling author Sally Bedell Smith takes us inside the Kennedy White House with unparalleled access and insight. Having interviewed scores of Kennedy intimates, including many who have never spoken before, and drawing on letters and personal papers made available for the first...
America's Queen: The Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
| Author | Sarah Bradford |
| ISBN | 0141002204 |
Now the subject of a new film directed by Pablo Larrain, "Jackie," starring Natalie Portman
Acclaimed biographer Sarah Bradford explores the life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, the woman who has captivated the public for more than five decades, in a definitive portrait that is both sympathetic...
Jacqueline Kennedy, The White House Years: Selections from the John F. Kennedy Library & Museum
| Author | Hamish Bowles |
| ISBN | 0821227459 |
This is an exquisite book with remarkable photos capturing Jacqueline Kennedy's time on her husband's campaigns and in the White House. The accompanying text is well written and an interesting read, and even includes copies of some handwritten notes from Jackie to her milliner and some of her frequently...
Jackie After O: One Remarkable Year When Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Defied Expectations and Rediscovered Her Dreams
| Author | Tina Cassidy |
| ISBN | 0061994332 |
Former Boston Globe reporter Tina Cassidy delivers a remarkable account of one year in the life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, America’s favorite first lady and an international icon. 1975 was a year of monumental changes for Jackie: it was the year she lost her second husband, shipping magnate...
Caroline's Comets: A True Story
| Author | Emily Arnold McCully |
| ISBN | 0823436640 |
Caroline Herschel (1750 1848) was not only one of the greatest astronomers who ever lived but also the first woman to be paid for her scientific work. Born the youngest daughter of a poor family in Hanover, Germany, she was scarred from smallpox, stunted from typhus and used by her parents as a scullery...
Reading Jackie: Her Autobiography in Books
| Author | William Kuhn |
| ISBN | 0385530994 |
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis never wrote a memoir, but she told her life story and revealed herself in intimate ways through the nearly 100 books she brought into print during the last two decades of her life as an editor at Viking and Doubleday. Based on archives and interviews with Jackie's authors,...
| Author | Bill Jones |
| ISBN | 1845966066 |
The mystery man threw off his disguise and started to run. Furious stewards gave chase. The crowd roared.
A legend was born. Soon the world would know him as 'the ghost runner'. John Tarrant. The extraordinary man whom nobody could stop. As a hapless teenage boxer in the 1950s, he'd been paid...
| Author | Margaret Truman |
| ISBN | 0688030386 |
These are women we should have known about
The 12 women chosen by Truman as women of courage have little more in common than their gender and their determination. I'd of some of them but, except for Dolley Madison and Susan B. Anthony, only as names. I had also heard that someone at the FDA who kept...
| Author | Gregory Mone |
| ISBN | 0375987584 |
Rebecca Skloot in her debut science-based non-fiction deals with the journey of Henrietta Lacks, contributor to the famous He La cell line, to immortality. She also discusses the early stages of tissue culture, how the He La cells transformed the fields of cytology, cancer research, virology, genetics,...
Louisa May's Battle: How the Civil War Led to Little Women
| Author | Kathleen Krull |
| ISBN | 0802796680 |
Louisa May Alcott is best known for penning Little Women, but few are aware of the experience that influenced her writing most-her time as a nurse during the Civil War. Caring for soldiers' wounds and writing letters home for them inspired a new realism in her work. When her own letters home were published...
| Author | Marie Killilea |
| ISBN | 1568490992 |
This book along with the first, Karen, changed my life (I first read it when I was 8). I ended up teaching children with special needs. And sharing the first book, Karen, with my daughter was a great moment in our relationship.
Karen Killilea is a child with cerebral palsy at a time when children with...
The Duchess of Windsor: The Secret Life
| Author | Charles Higham |
| ISBN | 0471485233 |
Wallis, the Duchess of Windsor, was one of the most famous women in history, the American divorcee who captured the King of England, Edward VIII, and cost him his throne. Until Charles Higham's 1.3 million-copy bestseller, much of her life was a glamorous mystery. Now, fifteen years later, major new...
Farewell, Jackie: A Portrait of Her Final Days
| Author | Edward Klein |
| ISBN | 0670033316 |
When she fell ill with cancer, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis faced death as she faced life— with all the bravery and grace of a woman who had long inspired the nation. In Farewell, Jackie, bestselling author Edward Klein—who knew Jackie for more than a dozen years—explores the eventful last six...
What Jackie Taught Us: Lessons from the Remarkable Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
| Author | Tina Santi Flaherty |
| ISBN | 0399530800 |
She was a woman of confidence, focus, and passion, and it made her one of the world's greatest sources of inspiration and influence. She drew on a remarkable wealth of self-knowledge and a sense of purpose to cope with extraordinary public demands and overwhelming private needs. How can anyone emulate...
You Can Get There From Here
| Author | Shirley MacLaine |
| ISBN | 0553261738 |
Immensely gifted with intelligence, curiosity, sensitivity, warmth, and a profound openness to people and places outside her own experience, Shirley MacLaine beings a very special quality of mind and heart to her acting, to her writing, to her travels. You Can Get There From...
| Author | Jacqueline Bouvier |
| ISBN | 0847827879 |
In 1951, eighteen-year-old Lee Bouvier and her twenty-two-year-old sister Jacqueline took their first trip to Europe together. Jackie had already spent a year in France living with a French family and attending the Sorbonne. Her many cards and letters had made her sister Lee want nothing more than...
The Everything Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Book: A Portrait of an American Icon
| Author | Kathleen Tracy |
| ISBN | 1598695304 |
A Portrait of an American IconJacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis-better known as Jackie O. to the tabloids, the deb to the Kennedy clan, and the 35th First Lady to historians-is easily one of the most recognizable Presidential wives. She remains the model of the proper American woman. But what...
Mona Lisa in Camelot: Jacqueline Kennedy and the True Story of the Painting's High-Stakes Journey to America
| Author | Margaret Leslie Davis |
| ISBN | 0738211036 |
In December 1962, Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa set sail from Paris to New York for what was arguably the riskiest art exhibition ever mounted. The fragile icon traveled like a head of state, with armed guards and military surveillance, in a temperature-controlled vault. Masterminding the entire show was...
Spic-and-Span!: Lillian Gilbreth's Wonder Kitchen
| Author | Monica Kulling |
| ISBN | 1770493808 |
Born into a life of privilege in 1878, Lillian Moller Gilbreth put her pampered life aside for one of adventure and challenge. She and her husband, Frank, became efficiency experts by studying the actions of factory workers. They ran their home efficiently, too. When Frank suddenly died, Lillian was...
| Author | Kevin Lynch |
| ISBN | 0262620324 |
A look at the human sense of time, a biological rhythm that may follow a different beat from that dictated by external, "official," "objective" timepieces.
Time and Place--Timeplace--is a continuum of the mind, as fundamental as the spacetime that may be the ultimate reality of the material...
