This book is nothing compared to other books written by this author. This book is full of accounts by other people who knew Jackie at some point in her life and most who had been shunned or ignored sometime in there relationship, which resolves a lot of lies and accusations that can not be proven true (such as Gore Vidal...he acted very rude to Jackie and others at a white house function and was never invited back to the white house and was shunned by Jackie and yet he is everywhere in this book stating how she felt and stuff she said, etc. which shoes it is all lies coming from a resentful man). Yes Jackie Kennedy was an icon but also an regular women who had her faults and plus jsut as anyone else, but this book doesn't potray that it is almost an attack on the character of the very women it is writing about. This book is a waste of time and frankly the paper it is written on, would never recommend to anyone to read just to use to burn in a fire.

This book was little more than an expanded tabloid article. It hurts my heart and makes me lose faith in the American people that this book is even read. I have no illusions about who the Kennedys are. We all recognize that they have had more than their share of self-induced scandal. However, they have also had more than their share of tragedy. Now, in the light of their most recent lose, let us respect Caroline. Leave the family alone and stop looking for ways to rip up a family which is already ripped to peices.

This is the last book I intend to read about Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.I am thoroughly disgusted with the tales of her poor little rich girl story. Her parents divorced, her first husband cheated on her, her second husband did also. Who cares about who she supposedly had affairs with?She never had enough money to make up for not having enough love. So this is somehow unique? Somehow I can't feel sorry for her.The rest of us manage to muddle along with what life throws our way. We don't make such a production of it.

This book is a page turner from the beginning. I have never read Christopher Andersen before, and now am reading another novel of his, "An Affair to Remember" detailing the love story between Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy. As someone who was not alive when JFK was shot, I never really understood this country's fascination with the Kennedy family. After reading this book, I now have a hunger to learn more about our "royal family." This is an easy, entertaining, poignant read.

Aside from Oscar Lewis, I have a hard time finding a social anthropologist I like. This one I don't care for. This author is heavily influenced by Freud, and we get lots of psychobabble. You'll like this book if you like lines like this: "On that Friday he engaged in an orgy of schismogenesis. He had been drinking since early morning. The alcoholic's drinking, argues Bateson, is often a symetrically schismogenic act...."

There is a reason the cliche is so popular. Obviously, a lot of women can relate to the "middle aged women getting stronger through a crisis" sort of thing.But this book was just so bad! Really poorly written, full of stereotypes, and so predictable. It read as though she were already planning the made for tv movie on the Lifetime channel. Just overly sappy, overly melodramatic. And why is it that in all these books, the women are of a certain sort of financial background? Do you want a real crisis? Try getting cancer and not being a successful attorney. Or cancer without even having insurance. Try leaving your husband and not being super wealthy. It's easy to have tidy endings when the characters don't face realistic problems.