Jackie, Janet & Lee
The Secret Lives of Janet Auchincloss and Her Daughters Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwill
J. Randy Taraborrelli
- ***THE
- INSTANT
- NEW
- YORK
- TIMES
- BESTSELLER*A
- dazzling
- biography
- of
- three
- of
- the
- most
- glamorous
- women
- of
- the
- 20th
- Century:
- Jacqueline
- Bouvier
- Kennedy
- Onassis,
- her
- mother
- Janet
- Lee
- Auchincloss,
- and
- her
- sister,
- Princess
- Lee
- Radziwill.**“Do
- you
- know
- what
- the
- secret
- to
- happily-ever-after
- is?”
- Janet
- Bouvier
- Auchincloss
- would
- ask
- her
- daughters
- Jackie
- and
- Lee
- during
- their
- tea
- time.
- “Money
- and
- Power,”
- she
- would
- say.
- It
- was
- a
- lesson
- neither
- would
- ever
- forget.
- They
- followed
- in
- their
- mother’s
- footsteps
- after
- her
- marriages
- to
- the
- philandering
- socialite
- “Black
- Jack”
- Bouvier
- and
- the
- fabulously
- rich
- Standard
- Oil
- heir
- Hugh
- D.
- Auchincloss.Jacqueline
- Bouvier
- would
- marry
- John
- F.
- Kennedy
- and
- the
- story
- of
- their
- marriage
- is
- legendary,
- as
- is
- the
- story
- of
- her
- second
- marriage
- to
- Greek
- shipping
- magnate
- Aristotle
- Onassis.
- Less
- well
- known
- is
- the
- story
- of
- her
- love
- affair
- with
- a
- world
- renowned
- architect
- and
- a
- British
- peer.
- Her
- sister,
- Lee,
- had
- liaisons
- with
- one
- and
- possibly
- both
- of
- Jackie's
- husbands,
- in
- addition
- to
- her
- own
- three
- marriages—to
- an
- illegitimate
- royal,
- a
- Polish
- prince
- and
- a
- Hollywood
- director.If
- the
- Bouvier
- women
- personified
- beauty,
- style
- and
- fashion,
- it
- was
- their
- lust
- for
- money
- and
- status
- that
- drove
- them
- to
- seek
- out
- powerful
- men,
- no
- matter
- what
- the
- cost
- to
- themselves
- or
- to
- those
- they
- stepped
- on
- in
- their
- ruthless
- climb
- to
- the
- top.
- Based
- on
- hundreds
- of
- new
- interviews
- with
- friends
- and
- family
- of
- the
- Bouviers,
- among
- them
- their
- own
- half-brother,
- as
- well
- as
- letters
- and
- journals,
- J.
- Randy
- Taraborrelli's
- book
- paints
- an
- extraordinary
- psychological
- portrait
- of
- two
- famous
- sisters
- and
- their
- ferociously
- ambitious mother.
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