![]() ![]() Kennedy, whom she quickly falls for despite knowing he’s a womanizer. Thornton then jumps back to 1952 and Jacqueline’s doomed relationship with stockbroker John Husted and her job as a photo girl for the Washington Times-Herald, which leads to her meeting then Congressman John F. ![]() Thornton opens moments before President Kennedy’s assassination, exploring the complexity of the first couple’s relationship, along with Jackie’s own pretensions (“This simple pink pillbox hat put to shame those jowly Texas matrons with their overwrought concoctions of flowers and feathers”). Thornton follows up American Princess, a novel of Alice Roosevelt, with this engaging and meticulously researched take on Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy. ![]()
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