A FIRST LADY'S LITERARY LEANINGS

摘要

Rather than diminishing her status as "American royalty," Jacqueline Kennedy Onas-sis's 1994 death enshrined her in immutable seclusion and mystery. Her reticence to grant interviews (the last was a full 30 years prior to her death), pen memoirs, or dish intimacies continues to fuel the public's hunger to know her. Biographer/historian Kuhn (The Politics of Pleasure) has sagely plumbed her editing career for insights, a fitting Rosetta Stone for decoding a woman afire with a lifelong love of reading, words, and books.