Description
Historians and biographers have often put Jacqueline Onassis on the fringes of history, but author Ellen Ladowsky looks at this signature American woman on her own terms, not as an accessory. Ladowsky's original interviews and fresh viewpoint on Jackie show a person of uncompromised will who continually fought - at all costs - for the safety and security of her family and of herself. It was her courage and dignity that bound America after the tragic assassination of President John F. Kennedy, and it was her devotion that created the myth of a modern Camelot. Jackie's childhood goal was "not to be a housewife," and here we see how her ambition, intelligence, guile, and strength let her achieve that goal in historic fashion.