Booklist Reviews : Booklist Monthly Selections - #2 April 2000 It's easy to miss one of the most significant photographs in this irresistible album of 250 rare and unpublished images of one of the twentieth-century's most famous women. Taken in 1953, it captures a young Jackie Bouvier focusing a camera on Massachusetts' junior senator, Jack Kennedy, standing awkwardly next to an American flag and squinting into the sun. Twenty-four-years-old and thrilled to be working for the Times-Herald in Washington, D.C., Jackie was writing columns with a distinctly feminist tone, including one in which, with an eerie prescience, she posed the question, "If you had a date with Marilyn Monroe, what would you talk about?" Here then is the intelligent, competitive, and bold woman who, as First Lady, came to the adoring attention of the world, then held it spellbound for the rest of her glamorous days and nights. Celebrity biographer Spada has gathered together a fascinating array of photographs, which traces every phase of Jackie's much scrutinized life, and paired them with illuminating captions that emphasize Jackie's literary nature, independence, and resiliency. While her thoroughbred beauty is obvious, these casual photographs also reveal the vitality of her mind and spirit. A valuable addition to the Kennedy shelves. ((Reviewed April 15, 2000)) Copyright 2000 Booklist Reviews
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