Jackie's Girl: My Life with the Kennedy Family

By Kathy McKeon

Book Overview

New York Times Bestseller

An endearing coming-of-age memoir by a young woman who spent thirteen years as Jackie Kennedy's personal assistant and occasional nanny--and the lessons about life and love she learned from the glamorous first lady.

In 1964, Kathy McKeon was just nineteen and newly arrived from Ireland when she was hired as the personal assistant to former first lady Jackie Kennedy. The next thirteen years of her life were spent in Jackie's service, during which Kathy not only played a crucial role in raising young Caroline and John Jr., but also had a front-row seat to some of the twentieth century's most significant events.

Because Kathy was always at Jackie's side, Rose Kennedy deemed her "Jackie's girl." And although Kathy called Jackie "Madam," she considered her employer more like a big sister who, in many ways, mentored her on how to be a lady. Kathy was there during Jackie and Aristotle Onassis's courtship and marriage and Robert Kennedy's assassination, dutifully supporting Jackie and the children during these tumultuous times in history.

A rare and engrossing look at the private life of one of the most famous women of the twentieth century, Jackie's Girl is also a moving personal story of a young woman finding her identity and footing in a new country, along with the help of the most elegant woman in America.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501158953
• ISBN13: 9781501158957
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: Gallery Books
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

Paints a real picture of life with Jackie and her family

You will love this book, written by an Irish girl who worked for Jackie just after the assassination and including Jackie’s marriage to Aristotle Onassis. She didn’t publish it until after the death of Jackie and John Jr.