Jack and Jackie: Portrait of an American Marriage

by Christopher Andersen

Book Overview

Theirs was one of the great love stories of our time. John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier captured the world's imagination as perhaps no other husband and wife in modern history have.International... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0688147607
• ISBN13: 9780688147600
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.5" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

A really really good book if u want to know about jack and Jackie life

A really really good book if u want to know about jack and Jackie life It shows there childhood and explains why they turned out the way they did really good book

A speed-freak in the White House: How grand

This is a little light and PEOPLE magazine-y in parts. But every now and then the author slips the needle in and lets you know he knows more than he's letting on. The catty remarks by Gore Vidal spice things up. I particularly liked the account of Kennedy's personal physician, Dr. Max Jacobson -- the legendary "Dr. Feelgood." Four times a week, right up until the assassination, the Doc was shooting Kennedy up with a special concoction; 25% vitamins and 75% pure dexedrine. Isn't it nice to know we had a speed-freak tweaker in the White House with his twitching fingers on The Button? (Funny how they didn't teach me these stuff in 6th grade History class.) Beneath Jack Kennedy's "vigorous, youthful" facade was a sickly man. And the same can be said for the whole shiney, air-brushed "Kennedy myth" and the rot just underneath the surface. They don't call it "the Kennedy curse" for nothing. Truly, the Kennedys are one of the sickest families to ever inflict themselves on the American body.

Spectacular

A fast read. Many details and secrets that probably would not have been published if either of them were alive.

WONDERFUL

A fabulous account of the childhoods and marriage of Jack and Jackie Kennedy. Fantastic pictures of the famous couple. A Wonderful read!!!! FOR QUESTIONS OR DICUSSIONS ON JACKIE ONASSIS, PLEASE E-MAIL ME AT MellissaLD@aol.com. HPOE TO HEAR FROM YOU!!!!!!!!!!

Captivating!!!

I enjoyed this book from beginning to end; and I could hardly put it down!!! I have read alot of material on the Kennedys, but there was a great deal of information in this book that I had never come across. Excellent!!!!

A fascinating look at a couple millions thought they knew

An intimate look at the parts of Jack and Jackie Kennedy that were not visible to the American public. Author Christopher Andersen presents a well-researched, balanced, and sensitive portrait of Jack and Jackie. This is not a mean-spirited book, but it is honest. Don't expect Camelot. A book loaded with anecdotes that you will want to share with your friends