FROM OUR EDITORS

America's intense interest in Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis continues unabated. In America's Queen, Sarah Bradford, the acclaimed author of Elizabeth: A Biography of Britain's Queen, examines the life and times of a different sort of royalty. Drawing heavily upon in-depth interviews with Jackie's sister Lee Radziwell and illustrated with previously unseen photographs, America's Queen offers an unblinking but evenhanded look at one of the most fascinating women of the 20th century.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Sarah Bradford has written a timely celebration of a life that was more private than commonly supposed. The range of her interviews is extraordinary. We hear from people from every era of Jackie's life, including many who have never spoken in such depth on record before - childhood intimates, Bouvier and Auchincloss relations, Kennedy family members and friends, Washington insiders, observers of the Onassis years, and admirers and colleagues from her professional life in New York. Using the insights gained from these remarkable reminiscences, Bradford is able to make a coherent picture out of the otherwise disparate and puzzling chapters of Jackie's life, from the aristocratic milieu of Newport and East Hampton to political Washington, the Greek Isles, and New York's publishing community.

FROM THE CRITICS

Charlotte Hays - Washington Post

[T]he book is probably the definitive one on the subject--providing, among other things, this entirely apt verdict on Jackie's character: "She had all the wrong standards, all the wrong standards," Demi Gates tells Bradford, "and yet she became something very special in spite of this."

Washington Monthly