by William Kuhn
27 “What can one say about Michael Jackson?”: Michael Jackson, Moonwalk (New York: Doubleday, 1988).
28 “The secret is not so much”: Jane Stanton Hitchcock, Social Crimes (New York: Hyperion, 2003), pp. 29, 202; author interview with Jane Hitchcock, February 23, 2008.
29 She said it was “agony”: Dorothy Schiff memorandum, April 19, 1968, Dorothy Schiff Papers, NYPL, Box 45, Editorial Files, Onassis, Jacqueline, December 13, 1960, to August 31, 1970.
30 “His conquest of us”: Adams, Atget’s Gardens, p. 6.
CHAPTER 3
1 “literally abasing herself”: Author interview with Scott Moyers, November 18, 2008.
2 “Oy vey”: Author interview with Howard Kaplan, April 1, 2009.
3 “aren’t we lucky”: Author interview with Mabel Cabot, March 26, 2009.
4 “The only way to exist happily”: Carl Sferrazza Anthony, As We Remember Her: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis in the Words of Her Family and Friends (New York: HarperCollins, 1997), p. 58.
5 “always lived through men”: Donald Spoto, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis: A Life (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000), p. 264.
6 only three days a week: “Jackie Onassis Lunch,” Dorothy Schiff memorandum, November 7, 1975, p. 3, Dorothy Schiff Papers, NYPL, Box 45, Editorial Files, Onassis, Jacqueline, 1971–77.
7 “some language conundrum”: William Noonan, Forever Young: My Friendship with John F. Kennedy, Jr. (New York: Viking, 2006), p. 31.
8 “you only work part-time”: Author interview with anonymous source.
9 new contact with writers: Author interviews with David Stenn, May 8, 2008, March 26, 2009.
10 $10,000 a year: Spoto, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, p. 265.
11 Lisa Drew had told Jackie: Ibid., pp. 281–82; Anthony, As We Remember Her, pp. 283–85.
12 “still upsetting to her”: John F. Baker, “Editors at Work: Star Behind the Scenes,” Publishers Weekly, April 19, 1993, p. 19.
13 “dealing with the Kennedys wasn’t easy”: Author interview with Olivier Bernier, April 11, 2008.
14 “she had never been so happy”: “Lunch with Jackie Onassis, Le Madrigal, Wednesday, April 20, 1977,” Dorothy Schiff memorandum, April 21, 1977, Box 45, NYPL, p. 12.
15 “a kid straight out of college”: Christopher Andersen, Jackie After Jack: Portrait of a Lady (New York: William Morrow, 1998), p. 307.
16 found her more interesting: “Jackie Onassis Lunch,” Schiff memorandum, November 7, 1975, p. 4.
17 Mason was “shocked”: Author interview with Francis Mason, November 18, 2008.
18 middlebrow readership: Jason Epstein, Book Business: Publishing Past, Present, and Future (New York: Norton, 2001), pp. 39–40, 70.
19 “I sell books, I don’t read them”: Al Silverman, The Time of Their Lives: The Golden Age of Great American Book Publishers, Their Editors and Authors (New York: Truman Talley/Macmillan, 2008), pp. 190–91.
20 “rubber stamped on newspaper”: Author interview with Marysarah Quinn, May 28, 2009.
21 Sargent asked Tuckerman: Author interviews with Nancy Tuckerman.
22 “a sense of complicity”: Author interview with Scott Moyers, November 18, 2008.
23 “another guardian of Camelot”: Elizabeth Crook, “Editor Jackie: A Guiding Hand Through the Forest,” Austin American-Statesman, May 27, 1994.
24 Jackie had a slow start: See the chronological list of her books, pp. 292–97.
25 not accomplishing very much: C. David Heymann, A Woman Named Jackie (London: Heinemann, 1989), p. 583.
26 lacked business smarts: Author interview with Herman Gollob, April 1, 2009.
27 “things of a scholarly nature”: Author interviews with Nancy Tuckerman.
28 “These are the books I most love to do”: JKO to Robert Banker, June 3, 1980, Ray Roberts Papers, Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin.
29 he was “amazed”: Author interview with Ion Trewin, June 16, 2009.
30 “she hated to lose money”: Author interview with Steve Rubin, November 17, 2008.
31 sometimes filtered the proposals: Author interviews with Bruce Tracy, September 15, 2008, March 23, 2009.
32 “high culture and famous friends”: Author interview with David Gernert, February 19, 2009.
33 exotic bird in a gilded cage: Author interview with Steve Wasserman, May 13, 2009.
34 “look as beautiful as possible”: Baker, “Editors at Work,” p. 20.
35 watched the designer “melt”: Author interview with Olivier Bernier, April 11, 2008.
36 “a little too fanciful”: Author interview with Peter Kruzan, May 13, 2009.
37 “lope on down”: Author interview with Whitney Cookman, May 13, 2009.
38 “I was only twenty-five”: Author interview with Marysarah Quinn, May 28, 2009.
39 “if you need some hand holding”: Crook, “Editor Jackie.”
40 “I want to be the kind”: C. Romano, “Doubleday’s Editor of Distinction,” Philadelphia Inquirer, May 22, 1994.
41 an offer to Jackie’s friend: Author interview with Herman Gollob, April 1, 2009.
42 Barry, for example, was the person: Author interview with Lynn Franklin, February 20, 2009.
43 “Jackie Onassis would like to edit this book”: Author interview with Jack Bass, April 6, 2009.
44 expected to be the hunter: Author interviews with Nan Talese.
45 the names that got away: Correspondence with JKO in Doubleday papers.
46 Arthur Gold and Robert Fizdale: JKO correspondence offered for sale via lionheartinc.com, Lion Heart Autographs.
47 had to tell Cathy Rindner Tempelsman: Correspondence with JKO in Doubleday papers.
48 Bill Barry worked for many years: Author interview with Bill Barry, February 20, 2009.
49 “I did everything she told me to do”: “Charlie Rose: 20 May 1994,” via YouTube.com.
50 an autobiography or a book on Eastern spirituality: E-mail exchange with Jonathan Cott, March 31, 2009.
51 about whom she felt especially protective: Author interview with Marly Rusoff, March 23, 2009.
CHAPTER 4
1 One of the times she called: Author interview with Mike D’Orso, May 15, 2009.
2 encouraging Barbara Chase-Riboud: “Chase-Riboud, Barbara,” in Sara Pendergast, Tom Pendergast, Contemporary Black Biography (Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2005).
3 “Nancy, can you come now?”: Author interviews with Nancy Tuckerman.
4 on the beach with Jackie: Author interview with Barbara Chase-Riboud, March 16, 2009.
5 the historian Fawn Brodie: Fawn McKay Brodie, Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History (New York: Norton, 1974).
6 her step-uncle, Wilmarth Lewis: Carl Sferrazza Anthony, “The Substance Behind the Style,” Town & Country, July 1994, p. 59.
7 two of Jefferson’s chairs: The Estate of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, auction, April 23–26, 1996 (New York: Sotheby’s, 1996), 56–57, lot 40.
8 “Thomas Jefferson’s way”: JKO to Dorothy Schiff [on Viking letterhead], April 4, 1977, Dorothy Schiff Papers, NYPL, Box 45, Editorial Files.
9 Annette Gordon-Reed has written: Annette Gordon-Reed, Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1997), pp. 4, 181, 183.
10 Echo of Lions: Author interview with Barbara Chase-Riboud, March 16, 2009.
11 a man who didn’t want to be married: Mary Van Rensselaer Thayer, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy: A Warm, Personal Story of the First Lady Illustrated with Family Pictures (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1961), p. 95.
12 people would think he was “queer”: David Pitts, Jack and Lem: John F. Kennedy and Lem Billings: The Untold Story of an Extraordinary Friendship (New York: Carroll & Graf, 2007), p. 138.
13 find some pretty girl: Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., Journals: 1952–2000, ed. Andrew Schlesinger and Stephen Schlesinger (New York: Penguin, 2007), p. 167.
14 “Her silent acceptance”: Donald S
poto, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis: A Life (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000), p. 159.
15 Grace and Rainier often lived: Robert Lacey, Grace (New York: Putnam, 1994), pp. 332–33.
16 a tribute to Josephine Baker: JKO to Dorothy Schiff, [1976], Schiff Papers, NYPL, Box 45, Editorial Files.
17 “how magnificent the flowers were”: Princess Grace with Gwen Robyns, My Book of Flowers (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1980), p. 8.
18 The one that would have mortified: Kiki Feroudi Moutsatsos, The Onassis Women: An Eyewitness Account (New York: Putnam, 1998), pp. 239–40.
19 “I wanted to go away”: Pete Hamill, “A Private Life Defined by Wit, Compassion,” Newsday, May 22, 1994.
20 marriage to Onassis as “a mistake”: Author interviews with Nancy Tuckerman.
21 “I think this is where”: William Sylvester Noonan, Forever Young: My Friendship with John F. Kennedy, Jr. (New York: Viking, 2006), p. 41.
22 “Allure holds you”: Diana Vreeland, Allure (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1980), p. 11.
23 letter of introduction: JKO to Whom It May Concern, November 28, 1978, Diana Vreeland Papers, NYPL, Mss. Coll. 5980, Box 10, folder 10.6.
24 “She was a geisha”: Vreeland, Allure, p. 142.
25 “this tremendous charm”: Sarah Bradford, America’s Queen (New York: Penguin, 2001), p. 37.
26 “Marilyn Monroe!!!”: JKO to Ray Roberts, May 14, 1980, Ray Roberts Papers, Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin. The book was eventually published as Bert Stern and Annie Gottlieb, The Last Sitting (New York: Morrow, 1982).
27 “If eyes were bullets”: Vreeland, Allure, p. 8.
28 “She was as common as mud”: Ibid., p. 24.
29 because of its similarity to her own story: Author interviews with Judith Moyers, May 26 and June 11 and 12, 2009.
30 The novel’s author: Author interview with Elizabeth Crook, May 22, 2009.
31 “to write about a woman”: Bob Tutt, “ ‘Bride’ Explores Sam Houston’s 2-Month Marriage,” Houston Chronicle, February 21, 1991.
32 “an old married couple”: JKO to Elizabeth Crook, August 10, 1990, courtesy of Elizabeth Crook.
33 “was insane for Elizabeth Crook”: Author interview with Steve Rubin, November 17, 2008.
34 “People go to California”: JKO to Judith Moyers, February 7, 1991, courtesy of Elizabeth Crook.
35 “listening to an HOUR-long”: Karen Karbo, “The Accidental Breadwinner,” New York Times, December 14, 2008; e-mail exchange with Karen Karbo, December 27 and 28, 2008.
36 a respected literary agent: Author interviews with Scott Moyers, November 18, 2008, October 19, 2009.
37 “I was as unique to her”: A Tribute to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (New York: Doubleday, 1995), p. 33.
38 “This sounds like a white person”: Author interview with anonymous source.
39 “Josephine boarded the train”: Dorothy West, The Wedding (New York: Doubleday, 1995), p. 43.
40 “romantic love”: Ibid., p. 200.
41 “all men are unfaithful”: Marie Brenner, “The Unforgettable Jackie,” Vogue, August 1994, p. 301; reprinted in Brenner, Great Dames: What I Learned from Older Women (New York: Crown, 2000).
42 “Marriage is not a simple love affair”: Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth (New York: Doubleday, 1988), p. 7.
43 dropping a memory of Jack: Brenner, Great Dames, p. 104; Carl Sferrazza Anthony, As We Remember Her: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis in the Words of Her Family and Friends (New York: HarperCollins, 1997), p. 348.
44 “May I speak with Mr. Onassis, please?”: Author interview with Bill Barry, February 20, 2009.
45 “my Greek alabaster head”: “Last Will and Testament of Jacqueline K. Onassis,” at livingtrustnetwork.com.
CHAPTER 5
1 “she loved her children”: Pete Hamill, “A Private Life Defined by Wit, Compassion,” Newsday, May 22, 1994.
2 “Probably I will be too intense”: JBK to Harold Macmillan, May 17, 1965, Macmillan Papers, Bodleian Library, MS. Macmillan deposit C. 553, folios 38–40.
3 “if they grow up to be all right”: JBK to Harold Macmillan, September 14, 1965, in ibid., folios 54–59.
4 John curtsied, too: Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., Journals: 1952–2000, ed. Andrew Schlesinger and Stephen Schlesinger (New York: Penguin, 2007), p. 200.
5 Caroline, published a book: Caroline Kennedy, The Best-Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (New York: Hyperion, 2001).
6 “My strongest image”: Property from Kennedy Family Homes: Hyannis Port, Martha’s Vineyard, New Jersey, New York, Virginia (New York: Sotheby’s, 2005), p. 9.
7 he had the feeling: J. B. West with Mary Lynn Kotz, Upstairs at the White House: My Life with the First Ladies (New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1973), p. 217.
8 “in public she had a ‘face’ ”: Author interview with Bill Barry, February 20, 2009.
9 “ ‘books for children of all ages’ ”: Author interview with Steve Rubin, November 17, 2008.
10 Herman Gollob is now retired: Author interview with Herman Gollob, April 1, 2009.
11 Carly Simon’s recollections: Author interview with Carly Simon, June 7, 2009.
12 stumbled onto a new genre: Author interview with Steve Rubin, November 17, 2008.
13 Plácido Domingo: Sheila Weller, Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon—and the Journey of a Generation (New York: Atria, 2008), p. 473.
14 one-time publisher Joe Armstrong: Ibid., p. 472.
15 his friendship with Jackie worked: Author interview with Jann Wenner, April 8, 2009.
16 “I used to work for Joe”: Author interview with Claudia Beyer, May 28, 2009.
17 “Who’s going to refuse a phone call”: Author interview with Peter Kruzan, May 13, 2009.
18 “would make a suggestion”: Author interview with Jody Linscott, February 10, 2009.
19 Czech artist Peter Sís: Author interview with Peter Sís, June 10, 2009; K. L. Kelleher, Jackie: Beyond the Myth of Camelot ([Philadelphia]: Xlibris, 2000), pp. 186, 191.
20 journey into something she didn’t know before: John F. Baker, “Editors at Work: Star Behind the Scenes,” Publishers Weekly, April 19, 1993, p. 19.
21 recounting of the Czech “Velvet Revolution”: Author interview with Marly Rusoff, March 23, 2009.
22 In the 1990s, when Jackie: Author interview with Elizabeth Crook, May 22, 2009; Elizabeth Crook, “Editor Jackie: A Guiding Hand Through the Forest,” Austin American-Statesman, May 27, 1994.
23 “CUT” and “DELETE”: Crook, “Editor Jackie.”
24 He was a young man: Author interviews with David Stenn, May 8, 2008, March 26, 2009.
25 “things I’d told her”: Author interview with Scott Moyers, November 18, 2008.
26 increasing the assistant’s pay: Bill Barry e-mail to author, August 16, 2010.
27 When he worked briefly: Author interview with Paul Golob, April 1, 2009.
CHAPTER 6
1 a hardback book to accompany the exhibition: Mabel Brandon quoted by Judith Martin in “Behind Every Good Colonial,” the Washington Post, May 28, 1976. See also Judy Klemesrud, “Mrs. Ford Helps ‘Remember the Ladies’ of Revolutionary Era,” the New York Times, June 30, 1976. Additional background information from author interview with Mabel Cabot [formerly Brandon], March 26, 2009.
2 An article in Ms. magazine: Miriam Schneir, the exhibition’s research assistant, was commissioned to write about it in Ms., July 1976, pp. 82–83.
3 well informed about Abigail Adams: Author interview with Olivier Bernier, April 11, 2008.
4 “like a state prisoner”: Quoted in Klemesrud, “Mrs. Ford Helps ‘Remember the Ladies.’ ”
5 inveterate and extravagant shopper: Linda Grant De Pauw and Conover Hunt, Remember the Ladies: Women in America 1750–1815 (New York: Viking/Pilgrim Society), p. 149.
6 “few mothers who did not bury at least one child”: Ibid., p. 40.
7 printing and newsp
aper publishing: Ibid., p. 62.
8 “Among the sponsors”: Author interview with Conover Hunt, November 14, 2008.
9 “Tom Guinzburg did her a very great service”: Author interview with Mabel Cabot, March 26, 2009.
10 This book, about Muffie’s mother: Mabel H. Cabot, Vanished Kingdoms: A Woman Explorer in Tibet, China, and Mongolia 1921–1925 (New York: Aperture, 2003).
11 “wild role-playing parties”: Hahn’s granddaughter’s tribute to her grandmother is quoted in “Emily Hahn,” en.wikipedia.org (accessed May 6, 2010).
12 William and Roslyn Targ: Leonore Fleischer, “Letter from New York: Socializing,” Washington Post, August 12, 1979; “William Targ,” en.wikipedia.org (accessed May 6, 2010).
13 significant commercial success: Frederick M. Winship, “Jackie’s Publishing Coup,” Washington Post, July 15, 1979.
14 “Why Does This Woman Work?”: Gloria Steinem, “On Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis,” Ms., March 1979, p. 50.
15 kept a framed copy of the Ms. issue: The Estate of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, auction, April 23–26, 1996 (New York: Sotheby’s, 1996), 477, lot 895.
16 “a closet feminist”: Frank Rich, “Journal: The Jackie Mystery,” New York Times, May 26, 1994.
17 far too much influence: Author interview with Linda Grant De Pauw, November 13, 2008; C. David Heymann, A Woman Named Jackie (London: Heinemann, 1989), p. 574.
18 to benefit a library: Lee Lescaze, “Radcliffe Revisionism,” Washington Post, June 13, 1979.
19 turnout for the Zaroulis book: Author interview with Steve Rubin, November 17, 2008.
20 the crowd broke and ran toward her: Leonore Fleischer, “Letter from New York,” Washington Post, August 12, 1979.
21 “I didn’t know Mrs. Onassis”: Nancy Zaroulis to author, May 20, 2009.
22 connection between Zaroulis’s examination: Winship, “Jackie’s Publishing Coup.”
23 road toward female emancipation: Beverly Stephen, “Novel Is Center of Attention Thanks to Its Editor—Jackie O.,” Chicago Tribune, September 2, 1979.
