In Jackie After O, acclaimed author and journalist Tina Cassidy explores this prolific yet incredibly daunting year in the life of Jacqueline Onassis, including her part in the campaign to preserve Grand Central Terminal in New York City; her pursuit of a real career, in the editorial department of Viking Press; the death of her second husband and her fraught relationship with his surviving daughter; and the London bombing that almost took her own daughter's life. Cassidy has unearthed new information from archives and original interviews, and reveals intimate stories about the projects and interests of Jackie's earlier years that would lay the foundation for her life beginning in 1975, from an internship at Vogue to her meticulous restoration of the White House when she was First Lady.
Jackie After O is an exciting and original portrayal of the life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis through the lens of one remarkable year, a time of reinvention both personal and public, as she shook the world's expectations and pursued her dreams in middle age.
Springing from a lively, personal introduction in which Tina Cassidy describes her grandmother's, her mother's and her own experiences of giving birth, readers are taken on an astounding journey into the history of childbirth. From evolution to the epidural and beyond, Tina Cassidy presents an intelligent, enlightening and impeccably researched cultural history of how and why we are born the way we are.
Women have been giving birth for millennia but that's about the only constant in the final stage of the great process that is human reproduction. Why is it that every culture—and every generation—seems to have its own ideas about the best way to get a baby born? This book explores the physical, anthropological, political and religious factors that have and will continue to influence how women bring new life into the world.
Tina spent her formative years as an award-winning journalist writing about everything from business to politics to fashion. In 2005 she left her editing post at the Boston Globe to publish her first book, the internationally acclaimed Birth: The Surprising History of How We Are Born. Her second book, Jackie After O: One Remarkable Year When Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Defied Expectations and Rediscovered Her Dreams, rounds out Tina's interest in the various stages of a woman's life -- from motherhood to empty-nester and beyond.
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