Young Jackie

This enchanting book presents a rare collection of photographs - many previously unpublished - of the young Jacqueline Bouvier making some of her earliest appearances in New York society.

Society photographer Bert Morgan, who started his career the year after Jackie was born, began taking photographs of her for the social columns of local newspapers when she was three years old and followed her from one social event to the next throughout her childhood and young adulthood.

This moving collection of photographs evokes the social whirl that marked the first twenty years of Jackie's life - dog shows, horse-riding competitions, weddings and holiday festivities in which she and her family participated.

In these touching images of small Jackie in jodhpurs, tweed jacket and little riding boots, or grinning next to her huge Great Dane, Bonnet, at a dog show, Bert Morgan captures the beauty, poise and determination that would later beguile the world.