Jackie & me
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Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2022.
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9781643750354, 1643750356
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Published
Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2022.
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336 pages ; 22 cm
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English
ISBN
9781643750354, 1643750356

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Innocent, coltish Jacqueline Bouvier is a career girl in 1950s Washington, DC, torn between a desperate need for independence and her own career and her fascination with a dashing young Congressman, Jack Kennedy. The world knows how the marriage turned out, but here's a fascinating, witty, and sensitive story of how the marriage almost never happened. In the spring of 1951, debutante Jacqueline Bouvier, working as the Inquiring Photographer for the Washington Times-Herald, meets Jack Kennedy, a charming Congressman from a notorious and powerful family, at a party in Washington, DC. Young, rebellious, eager to break free from her mother, Jackie is drawn to the elusive young politician, and soon she and Jack are bantering over secret dinner dates and short work phone calls. Jack, busy with House duties during the week and Senate campaigning on the weekend (as well as his other now-well-known extracurricular activities) convinces his best friend and fixer, Lem Billings, to court Jackie on his behalf. Only gradually does Jackie begin to realize that she is being groomed to be the perfect political wife, whether Jack is interested in settling down or not. Taking place mostly during the spring and summer before Jack and Jackie's wedding, and narrated by an older Lem as he looks back at his own relationship with the Kennedys and his role in this complicated marriage, Jackie & Me is a searching story about a young woman of a certain class with narrow options, two people who loved each other, and two people who realized too late that they devoted their lives to Jack at their own expense. Sharply written, steeped in the era and with witty appearances by members of the extended Kennedy clan, this is Jackie as never before seen, in a story about love, sacrifice, friendship, and betrayal.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Bayard, L. (2022). Jackie & me (First edition.). Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Bayard, Louis. 2022. Jackie & Me. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Bayard, Louis. Jackie & Me Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2022.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Bayard, Louis. Jackie & Me First edition., Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2022.

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