America's Queen
  • Published: 2 January 2014
  • ISBN: 9780241967430
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 736
  • RRP: $52.99
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America's Queen

The Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

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From Britain's best Royal biographer comes the definitive account of America's Queen

The definitive biography of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis - a fascinating account of an extraordinary life.

Jackie Bouvier's privileged upbringing instilled rigid self-control, while her expedient marriage into the Kennedy clan consolidated her determination. Revealing new testimony from many of the couple's closest friends show the profound complexities both of this very public relationship, including the affairs that threatened it, and of her controversial marriage to Onassis. Here is the private Jackie - neglected wife, vigilant mother, obsessive shopper and working widow - whose fascinating nature is illuminated by all that Bradford has discovered.
  • Published: 2 January 2014
  • ISBN: 9780241967430
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 736
  • RRP: $52.99
Categories:

About the author

Sarah Bradford

Sarah Bradford is a historian and biographer. Her previous books include Cesare Borgia (1976), Disraeli (1982), winner of the New York Times Book of the Year, Princess Grace (1984), George VI (1989) and Elizabeth: A Biography of Her Majesty the Queen (1996).

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Praise for America's Queen

Exceptionally intelligent and well-written . . . a thumping good read

Daily Mail

Bradford has a real grasp of history and the ability to make it spark into new life

Anne Chisholm, Sunday Telegraph

Bradford's forte, ever since she was a history-mad girl, is thinking herself into other lives

Daily Telegraph

Long before Diana Spencer, Jacqueline Kennedy was the world's ultimate fantasy princess . . . In public, at JFK's side, Jackie's air of breathless sophistication, her chic cultural warmth complemented [him] perfectly. In private she could be softly malicious . . . scurrilously funny, and full of the entertaining intolerance of those who are young, rich, beautiful . . . a lucid, well-written new biography

Guardian

There has not been, nor will there be, a better biography of Jackie

Times Literary Supplement

The definitive biography

Anthony Howard, Sunday Times

A masterly biography

Daily Telegraph

A timely reminder of the contradictory and complicated character of the First Lady . . . a revealing portrait

Daily Mail

Sarah Bradford is very good, and very detailed, about the Kennedys. A good biography, and a good history

Evening Standard