This book answers many questions I have had over the years about these sad, selfish women. Surprisingly, he changed my negative opinion of Jackie with the deep concern she had for her mother when she became ill. Why has no other author gone into such detail about this episode of her life?
Lee, who died ten days ago here in Manhattan of old age, was never on my radar. She was always the sister who lived in the shadow of her super famous sister. I cannot imagine what an emotional rollercoaster her life must have been all those years.
This book, regardless of the One Star reviews, was meticulously researched by the author. When I finished it, I wondered what he left out, not what he wrote about. The off-the-record interviews he must have had with men and women who knew the family must have been daunting. What to include and what to exclude. After all, both Caroline Kennedy and Tina Radziwill are still alive.
Still alive. A cast of hundreds in the Kennedy-Radziwill-Bouvier circle have already passed away. Jack, Bobby, Ted, John, Jr., Stas, Tony, Herb Ross, Janet Jr., Truman, Ari Onassis, his son Alexander and daughter Christina, Maria Callas. The list is endless. Few things surprise me, but the death of John, Jr. his wife and sister-in-law, really did me in emotionally. So many stories about that day from many writers and friends of the couple. None of them flattering, I'm afraid. By now, John would have been president with a family of little Kennedy kids running around the White House and Hyannis Port. If not president, surely Governor of New York State. A Kennedy Curse? Absolutely. Jackie was infected with it.
I always wondered how soon after the wedding Onassis realized he had bitten off more than he could chew? When he realized what a mistake he had made marrying Jackie and not Maria, he must have been overcome with depression. Too late.
When Jackie died from cancer, I remember John, Jr. speaking to the press outside her apartment building telling everyone she had died surrounded by her family and her books. Excuse me?! As a friend of mine said, "How sadly fitting." My greatest regret was she left no real legacy. When Jack was murdered, she could have gathered all their monied friends to set up a foundation in his name that would have become a becon for the world to help all humanity. She didn't do this. She never did this. Regardless of the people she helped we don't know about, she missed her chance to create a legacy of giving, caring.
Jackie and Lee (and their mother) went from man to man to man, unable to live alone and independent of someone else's money to sustain them. Perhaps they were victims of their era. By the time she died, Lee Radziwill was a skeleton, in designer dresses and heavily made up in unflattering cosmetics. The last few photos of her were scary to look at. She never exhaled.
This is probably the most informative biography of the three women to date. Only Caroline Kennedy or Tina Radziwill could write the unvarnished truth. Of course they never will. Happily, Caroline's children have remained under the radar all these years. No scandals, drug overdoses, Page Six gossip. Good for her! The way she raised her children to be productive adults is the one saving grace that Jacqueline Kennedy performed. Job well done.
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