History remembers Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis as the consummate first lady, the nation's tragic widow, the tycoon's wife, and, of course, the quintessential embodiment of elegance. Her biographers, however, skip over just as equally an important stage in her life: her nearly twenty year long career as a book editor. "Jackie as Editor", written by one of the authors Jackie edited, is the first book to focus exclusively on this remarkable woman's editorial career. At the age of forty-six, one of the most famous women in the ...
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History remembers Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis as the consummate first lady, the nation's tragic widow, the tycoon's wife, and, of course, the quintessential embodiment of elegance. Her biographers, however, skip over just as equally an important stage in her life: her nearly twenty year long career as a book editor. "Jackie as Editor", written by one of the authors Jackie edited, is the first book to focus exclusively on this remarkable woman's editorial career. At the age of forty-six, one of the most famous women in the world went to work for the first time in twenty-two years. Greg Lawrence, who was one of her authors and had three of his books edited by Jackie, draws from interviews with more than 125 of her former collaborators and acquaintances in the publishing world to examine one of the twentieth centuries most enduring subjects of fascination through a new angle: her previously untouted skill in the career she chose. Over the last third of her life, Jackie would master a new industry, weather a very public professional scandal, and shepherd over a hundred books through the increasingly corporate halls of Viking and Doubleday. Away from the public eye, Jackie quietly defined life on her own terms. "Jackie as Editor" gives intimate new insights into the life of a complex and enigmatic woman who found fulfilment through her creative career during book publishing's legendary Golden Age.
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Collectible, Fine in Near Fine jacket. Book Octavo, hardcover, fine in near fine blue pictorial dj. First edition, first printing. Clean, unmarked. 322 pp. including index. An absorbing chronicle of a much overlooked chapter in Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis's life--her nineteen-year editorial career. History remembers Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis as the consummate first lady, the nation's tragic widow, the millionaire's wife, and, of course, the quintessential embodiment of elegance. At the age of forty-six, one of the most famous women in the world went to work for the first time in twenty-two years.
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While it seems that anyone who knew Jackie, even on the peripheral, wrote a book, as evidenced by some that are pure sludge, this one is at the top of the list, showing not only her literary intelligence, but her symbiotic relationship with her authors that she edited and how she learned the craft of editing quickly, and well. The book also shows how she deftly managed to lead this new life, outside of the view of the press, who had dogged her since her White House years.
Greg Lawrence then partnered with dancer Gelsey Kirkland, was one of her authors, and this fine bouquet shows Onassis at her best: professional, dedicated, fearless, and determined; many of the qualities that earned her praise and admiration for the White House restoration, and that awakened American sensibilities to the fine arts. Lawrence also notes that she was the last of the "old school" editors, like Max Perkins, who were of a certain social class, before publishing became corporate. It's also a dramatic tale of women in the 20th century and how they redefined themselves in light of their changed lives after the ill-named "women's liberation." While one may not think of Jackie as a feminist, in her own way, she was. And, while she didn't beat cancer, she beat the hell out of an industry, at that time, that had few female editors. Vive Jackie.
