John and Caroline: Their Lives in Pictures [Hardcover]

James Spada (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 2001

They were the youngest children to live in the White House in over a century - Caroline just three and John Jr. a newborn when their father took the oath of office. Symbolising the youthful vigour of the new administration, they won the hearts of the American people as they romped around - and under - their father's desk in the Oval Office. And when, three years later, Caroline kissed JFK's coffin and John Jr. saluted the passing bier, they were forever etched into the nation's collective heart. In this book, James Spada gathers the rarest and most telling photographs of these remarkable siblings as they grew up in the public spotlight, protected fiercely by their mother and yet never far from the camera's eye. As with his previous books, Jackie and Ronald Reagan, Spada includes 255 photographs (150 never-before-published) and tells John and Caroline's life story in extended anecdotal captions.

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About the Author

James Spada is a writer and photographer with eighteen books to his credit, including internationally best-selling biographies of Barbra Streisand, Bette Davis, Peter Lawford, and Princess Grace of Monaco; he has also compiled pictorial biographies of Ronald Reagan and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, among others. He lives in Natick, Massachusetts.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press; 1st edition (July 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0312280890
• ISBN-13: 978-0312280895
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 8.4 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,396,434 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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As a thirteen-year-old kid in Staten Island, James Spada started the first Marilyn Monroe Memorial Fan Club. He produced four bulletins and one yearbook a year for four years, when he had to disband the club due to lack of money.
In college he founded EMK: The Edward M. Kennedy Quarterly, and worked as an intern in Senator Kennedy's Boston office in 1970.

At 23 his first book, Barbra: The First Decade--The Films and Career of Barbra Streisand, was published. He followed that up with the authorized book The Films of Robert Redford. He went on to write illustrated coffee-table books about Streisand, Marilyn Monroe, Judy Garland and Liza Minnelli, Katharine Hepburn, Bette Midler, Shirley MacLaine and Warren Beatty, and Jane Fonda.

In 1987 his first non-pictorial biography, Grace: The Secret Lives of a Princess, became a major international bestseller. He followed that up with intimate biographies of Peter Lawford, Bette Davis, Barbra Streisand, and Julia Roberts.

His writing has appeared in Vanity Fair, People, Ladies Home Journal, Cosmopolitan, The New York Times Book Review, McCall's, the Los Angeles Times, the London Sunday Express, and many other publications.

In 2010 his first work of fiction, Days When My Heart was Volcanic--A Novel of Edgar Allan Poe, was published.

In recent years he has become equally renowned as a photographer of the male nude. His first collection, Black & White Men, was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award as the Best Visual Arts Book of 2000.

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best photo books about the Kennedys, July 20, 2001

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This review is from: John and Caroline: Their Lives in Pictures (Hardcover)

I am a devoted collector of Kennedy material, and have seen most all photos of John and Caroline that have been published. But James Spada has done a wonderful job of seeking out the lesser known photos and making editorial choices which create a truly unique book. This volume celebrates the joy of their lives and helps salve the pain we felt as we saw them suffer loss. I would suggest this book as a gift to anyone who loved John and continues to love Caroline.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Touching, tender, loving and insightful, July 10, 2001

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This review is from: John and Caroline: Their Lives in Pictures (Hardcover)

James Spada has created a loving tribute to the most famous brother and sister in America, John and Caroline Kennedy. Using a range of rarely seen photographs to tell the stories of their two remarkable lives, Spada weaves an emotionally vivid account of the lives of the Camelot Kids. A tasteful, and tasty, tribute to the children of JFK and Jackie.

A MUST HAVE for any Kennedy fan.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sensational, sweet siblings, July 18, 2001

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This review is from: John and Caroline: Their Lives in Pictures (Hardcover)

A truly lovely book for any 'Kennedyphile'. Beautiful pictures, many never before seen, and consise, accurate text. The book is a decade by decade photo album showing, both together and separately, what a good job Jackie did in raising these two unique individuals. As adults, they remained the closest of friends. The pictures of marital bliss between John and Carolyn Bessette Kennedy are a little heavy handed, in light of their reported strained relationship, but they still bring a tear to the eye, wondering what might have been.