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Jacqueline Bouvier: An Intimate Memoir

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This was one of the first books I read about Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and though I've read many since, I still consider this one of the best. It is filled with reminisces of events experienced by the author, a cousin of Jackie's who kept in touch with her throughout her life. The author has done extensive research into both the Bouviers and the Kennedys in his other writings - this book is an interesting and informative combination of that research and his personal memories of Jackie as a child and young woman. Highly recommended to all who wish to learn more about the less documented part of Jackie's life.

If one is interested in learning about Jackie Kennedy's early childhood and teen years, this is the perfect book to examine. The author, a cousin of the late First Lady, shared many of her early experiences and thus provides excellent primary source material. Also noteworthy are photographs from Jackie's childhood and teen years

John Davis offers quite a bit of detail about Jackie Kennedy's early life and psychological insight most will find interesting. He reveals Jackie's mom was a gold digger and influenced her daughter to be the same, looking for the guy who would take care of her financially, no matter what the cost. Jackie's mother also neglected her two daughters in her quest to find the sugar daddy second husband (which she did; this woman sounds like a major piece of work!). There's a lot of gossip here but Davis needed a better book editor -- as he meanders on about parts of the family no one cares about instead of sticking to Jackie. I can only give this tome three stars because, despite Davis' insider access, being Jackie's relative, he held back on certain stories. For example, he ends the book with Jackie getting married to JFK and her father devastated that he was prevented from walking her down the aisle. The reader is left hanging, however, because he ends the book there--without a winding up paragraph to say what the father/daughter relationship was like after that, when and how the father died, etc. Kind of important as Davis stresses throughout the book how close Jackie was to her dad, even making it seem like the attachment was almost sick on his part. We need to know what happened after the wedding, instead of this abrupt ending. Too bad this couldn't have been written and edited with more finesse because there is a lot here to fascinate rabid Jackie-philes.

A new insight into Jackie's childhood and teen years. A fresh change from other biographies on Jackie O. Highly recommended. FOR QUESTIONS OR DISCUSSIONS ON JACKIE ONASSIS, PLEASE E-MAIL ME AT MellissaLD@aol.com. HOPE TO HEAR FROM YOU!!!!!!!!!!

Book was in better condition than was described; time contract for delivery was accurate. Very satisfied with product and service.

This book was good, but it only talked about her childhood. There was nothing about Onassis and her life after she married JFK. It didn't even mention her kids. John H. Davis also needs to learn to stick to the subject, he would often wonder off into stories about himself. If I cared about him I would have gotten a book about John H. Davis, but I didn't, I got a book on Jacqueline Bouvier. No one really cares what she did day by day of her childhood. We just really need the basic stuff. My final words are that it was a good book about her childhood and thats it, so i believe this book doesn't deserve more than two stars because there was more to Jacqueline's life than just her childhood and it doesn't even talk about her White House expirence or how she died.