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The fabulous Bouvier sisters : the tragic and glamorous lives of Jackie and Lee

Title
The fabulous Bouvier sisters : the tragic and glamorous lives of Jackie and Lee / Sam Kashner and Nancy Schoenberger.
Author
Kashner, Sam
Publication
  • New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2018]
  • ©2018

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Additional Authors
Schoenberger, Nancy
Description
318 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 24 cm
Summary
  • Draws on candid interviews with Jackie Kennedy Onassis' sister, Lee, to share insights into the close relationship the two shared, discussing their artistic interests and the rivalries that complicated their bond.
  • Kashner and Schoenberger draw on candid interviews with Jackie Kennedy Onassis' sister, Lee, to share insights into the close relationship the two shared. One became the most iconic woman of her time, while the other lived in her shadow. In discussing their artistic interests and the rivalries that complicated their bond, we learn the complete story of the sisters' private and public lives, and that of the Bouvier family itself. -- adapted from jacket.
  • "A poignant and evocative account of the two sisters who represented style and class above all else--Jackie Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwill. When sixty-four-year-old Jackie Kennedy Onassis died in her Fifth Avenue apartment, her younger sister Lee wept inconsolably. Then Jackie's thirty-eight-page will was read. Lee discovered that substantial cash bequests were left to family members, friends, and employees--but nothing to her. "I have made no provision in this my Will for my sister, Lee B. Radziwill, for whom I have great affection, because I have already done so during my lifetime," read Jackie's final testament. Drawing on the authors' candid interviews with Lee, [this book] explores this complicated relationship. In life, Jackie and Lee were alike in so many ways. Both women had a keen eye for beauty--in fashion, design, painting, music, dance, sculpture, poetry--and both were talented artists. Both loved pre-revolutionary Russian culture and the blinding sunlight, calm seas, and ancient olive groves of Greece; each was drawn to the siren call of the Atlantic, sharing sweet, early memories of swimming with the rakish father they adored, John "Black Jack" Vernou Bouvier, at his East Hampton retreat. But Jackie was their father's favorite, and Lee their mother's. One would become the most iconic woman of her time, while the other lived in her shadow. As they grew up, the two sisters developed an extremely close relationship threaded with rivalry, jealousy, and competition. Yet it was probably the most important relationship of their lives. For the first time, Vanity Fair contributing editor Sam Kashner and acclaimed biographer Nancy Schoenberger tell the complete story of these larger-than-life sisters. Drawing on new information and extensive interviews with Lee, now eighty-five, this dual biography sheds light on the public and private lives of two extraordinary women who lived through immense tragedy in enormous glamour."--Jacket.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Biography.
  • Biographies.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-303) and index.
Contents
Lee Radziwill in New York -- Jacks and Pekes in paradise -- Americans in Paris -- London calling -- Bouvier style: the White House years -- The traveling sisters -- Swan dive -- The golden Greek -- This side of paradise: return to New York -- Working girls -- Weddings and funerals -- Lee Radziwill in the south of France.
Call Number
JFE 19-1359
ISBN
  • 9780062364982
  • 0062364987
  • 9780062881809
  • 0062881809
LCCN
2018134487
OCLC
  • 1052886771
  • 1052886771
Author
Kashner, Sam, author.
Title
The fabulous Bouvier sisters : the tragic and glamorous lives of Jackie and Lee / Sam Kashner and Nancy Schoenberger.
Publisher
New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2018]
Copyright Date
©2018
Edition
First edition.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-303) and index.
Added Author
Schoenberger, Nancy, author.
Research Call Number
JFE 19-1359
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