Chalet Shelves • Reading Recs 9.16.26
/Friends I love to take deep dives into subjects or authors. Today I’m sharing books about the Bouvier sisters - Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and her sister the wonderfully stylish socialite Lee Radziwill. Enjoy!
Happy Times: Happy Times was the way Ms. Radziwill chose to look at life. She wanted to only remember what was beautiful.Through anecdotes and pictures, personal notes and drawings, Happy Times offers readers a very personal perspective on a highly publicized life.
Lee: In Lee - Ms. Radziwill shares her unique perspective as a witness to history, recalling friendships with cultural figures such as Rudolf Nureyev and Truman Capote. It is filled with her personal photographs.
The Fabulous Bouvier Sisters: Tells the complete story of these larger-than-life sisters. Drawing on new information and extensive interviews with Lee, this dual biography sheds light on the public and private lives of two extraordinary women who lived through immense tragedy in enormous glamour
Mrs. Kennedy: The Missing History of the Kennedy Years: Drawing from recently declassified top-secret material, as well as eyewitness accounts, Secret Service records, and Jacqueline Kennedy’s personal letters, the author addresses the question: What was it like to be Mrs. John F. Kennedy during the dramatic thousand days of the Kennedy presidency?
These titles capture the most stylish and sought after images of Jackie.
My Travels with Mrs. Kennedy: Former Secret Service Agent Clint Hill shares rare and never before published photographs of Jacqueline Kennedy traveling through Europe, Asia, and South America.
Camera Girl: Before meeting John F. Kennedy, Jacqueline Bouvier was the Washington Times-Herald ’s “Inquiring Camera Girl,” posing compelling questions to members of the public on the streets of DC and snapping their photos with her Graflex camera. She turned their answers into a daily column. In reading this we are introduced to a self-assured young woman who went on to be one of the world’s most famous people.
One Special Summer: In 1951, eighteen-year-old Lee Bouvier and her twenty-two-year-old sister Jacqueline took their first trip to Europe together. As they traveled, they sketched and kept notes, creating an illustrated journal of their time abroad, which they presented to their parents as a thank you upon their return; this is that wonderful journal.
These volumes are both reading and coffeetable books in one! Til next time friends Happy Reading! I’ll see you on the Gram!
