Book Description
She was perhaps the most famous, most scrutinized, most
talked about woman of our century. From the moment Jacqueline
Kennedy stepped into the White House, she inspired a
generation of Americans and changed the face of a nation. But
underneath the glitter and the hype, just who was Jackie?
Now, in this carefully detailed chronicle, Edward Klein,
the former editor in chief of The New York Times Magazine,
bestselling author of All Too Human: The Love Story of Jack
and Jackie Kennedy, and friend of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
for many years, tells the story of Jackie's best years as it
has never been told before, shedding an entire new light on
her enduring legacy.
Edward Klein has amassed a wealth of exclusive information
from private documents and correspondence, FBI files, and
hundreds of interviews with Jackie's friends, the associates
of her second husband, Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle
Onassis, and her longtime lover, the mysterious diamond
merchant Maurice Templesman. In this extraordinary,
myth-shattering book, many people break their silence for the
first time, answering dozens of provocative questions:
; Why did Jackie marry Onassis? Was it only for the money?
; How did she react when Onassis resumed his affair with
Maria Callas?
; What was the real reason their marriage fell apart?
; When Jackie returned to New York, how did she rebuild
her future on a tarnished and clouded past?
; When did Maurice Templesman enter her life, and what role
did he play in helping Jackie build her fortune?
; How did Jackie spend her time during those very private New
York years?
Much more than a portrait of a famous celebrity, Edward
Klein's work captures the essence of a captivating woman
whose passion for wealth was matched only by her deep need
for privacy. In Just Jackie, Klein reveals for the first time
how Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis finally found the love and
contentment she was searching for all her life.
