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Product Description
Coming in January 2012, Hyperion will launch a one-of-its kind product which will allow readers to experience history in a completely new way.
While reading Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.?s interviews of Jacqueline Kennedy, readers will be able to go back in time fifty years, and feel like they are part of a conversation between two old friends.
The eBook Includes:
PHOTOS
- 85 photographs of the Kennedy family are included throughout the narrative
TEXT
- Complete transcripts of Jacqueline?s interviews allow readers a window into an important time in American history
- Accompanying annotations from leading presidential historian Michael Beschloss inform readers on political details of the era
- Clicking the annotation numeral will bring the reader to Beschloss?s annotation at the back of the book automatically. Conversely, clicking on the numeral next to the annotation itself will bring the reader back to the transcripts, exactly where they left off.
Product Description
Coming in January 2012, Hyperion will launch a one-of-its kind product which will allow readers to experience history in a completely new way.
While reading Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.?s interviews of Jacqueline Kennedy, readers will be able to go back in time fifty years, and feel like they are part of a conversation between two old friends.
The eBook Includes:
PHOTOS
- 85 photographs of the Kennedy family are included throughout the narrative
TEXT
- Complete transcripts of Jacqueline?s interviews allow readers a window into an important time in American history
- Accompanying annotations from leading presidential historian Michael Beschloss inform readers on political details of the era
- Clicking the annotation numeral will bring the reader to Beschloss?s annotation at the back of the book automatically. Conversely, clicking on the numeral next to the annotation itself will bring the reader back to the transcripts, exactly where they left off.
Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy Reviews
Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy Reviews
| 288 of 299 people found the following review helpful:  MOVING BEYOND WORDS - 5 STARS !!!!, By Amazon Verified Purchase This review is from: Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy (Hardcover) I simply cannot put into words the beauty of this book, audio, and project that was put together by Caroline Kennedy and historian Michael Beschloss, but of course you have to consider what they are building upon. It is January 1964; a 34 year old young widow who has captivated America with her personal courage was forced by her husband's death to leave what had become her home, the White House. She must endure the long winter. She is alone, without husband, and she has 2 young children who have been devastated as well by their father's death. She also has to be going through what any of us who have been divorced go through, the feeling of abandonment, and completely devoid of being rooted in reality because the reality is too harsh to contemplate. At this moment less than 4 months into the grieving process, she agrees with Harvard historian Arthur Schlesinger to go through a series of interviews to be recorded for history. The historian had taken a... Read more 211 of 224 people found the following review helpful: Fabulous, intimate portrait of a First Lady through her own words: a treasure!, By This review is from: Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy (Hardcover) A preliminary review: this book is an outstanding contribution to our understanding of one of the greatest First Ladies in our nation's history (in my opinion, only Eleanor Roosevelt and Betty Ford are her rivals). Jacqueline Kennedy comes to life in these pages, brilliantly edited and commented by renowned presidential historian Michael Beschloss. After reading so many "tell all" Jackie books that claim to have the "inside word", it is refreshing to have Jackie herself provide the first person account, not some journalist with 'sources'. There are many treasures and insights to be found in these pages, told in an intimate, straightforward fashion. As someone who has read countless books pertaining to President and Mrs. Kennedy, I thought nothing could surprise me at this late juncture. I was wrong. Caroline Kennedy has done us all a great service in providing the actual audio recordings from her mother's conversations with JFK aide Arthur Schlesinger, nobly transcribed and... Read more 70 of 77 people found the following review helpful: A Day Well Spent, By homeice "Elizabeth S. Brinton" (Coeur d' Alene, Idaho) - See all my reviews This review is from: Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy (Hardcover) After spending the day listening to the tapes, mesmerized and unable to do little else, I have come away stunned and in awe. We have always had a somewhat packaged view of the duties of First Lady. That Mrs. Kennedy was able to speak at all so soon after the tragedy, and so succinctly in regards to her grasp on history, is a testament to her strength of character. Having read many books written about those years, some brilliant and some terrible, they are all given to surmising what the President must have felt, or how he came to certain conclusions. We now have a much clearer picture of the man. He accepted challenges and expected those around him to respond in kind. He was not petty, or small, not self conscious, or self aggrandizing. He was given to tremendous curiosity, loved journalism, would have written great books and would have steered the ship of state to a safer harbor. Much is voiced about power, what it does to people, who is attracted by the trappings and neglects the... Read more |
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