Camera Girl Tthe Coming of Age of Jackie Bouvier Kennedy

Carl Sferrazza Anthony

eBook - 2023

One of The New Yorker's Best Books of 2023 "One of the most detailed, nuanced portraits of Jackie to date." —The Washington Post An illuminating and "wholly refreshing" (David Maraniss, New York Times bestselling author) biography of the young Jackie Bouvier Kennedy that covers her formative adventures abroad in Paris; her life as a writer and photographer in Washington, DC; and her romance with a dashing, charismatic Massachusetts congressman who shared her intellectual passion.Camera Girl "shines with wit and intelligence" (Library Journal, starred review) as it brings to life Jackie's years as a young, single woman trying to figure out who she wanted to become. Chafing at the expectations of her ...family and the societal limitations placed on women in that era, Jackie pursued her dream career as a writer. Set primarily during the years of 1949 to 1953, when Jackie was in her early twenties, the... more