The married life of Jack and Jacqueline Kennedy has been a source of endless conjecture; yet those ten tumultuous years, from 1953 to 1963, have remained evanescent, tantalizingly veiled in mystery - until now.
Ed Klein, who was the editor of The New York Times Magazine and is now a contributing editor to Vanity Fair and who was a close friend of Jackie's for the last 15 years of her life, divulges the details of the romance of the century everyone wants to hear. But, much more than the portrait of a marriage, this book captures the essence of an unforgettable man and an extraordinary woman in their years together by providing never-before-shared information on the real scope of Joe Kennedy's role in mating Jack and Jackie; intimate details of the couple's private moments during the honeymoon, the early years and the special closeness in the White House; how the love of their children, Joe Kennedy's stroke and the loss of their son Patrick drew them closer than ever; Jackie's prestige and influence in politics and Jack's pride in his wife's charisma; sex, money, betrayal; fights, tears and threats of divorce; bitter conflicts and Jackie's inventive touches and why Jackie enshrined their marriage in myth, and how she viewed it toward the end of her life.
A classic and complex love story, this book fundamentally revises our understanding of the Kennedy marriage and of Camelot itself.
