"An absorbing chronicle of a much overlooked chapter in
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis's life--her nineteen-year
editorial career "History remembers Jacqueline Kennedy
Onassis as the consummate first lady, the nation's tragic
widow, the millionaire's wife, and, of course, the
quintessential embodiment of elegance. Her biographers,
however, skip over an equally important stage in her life:
her nearly twenty year long career as a book editor. "Jackie
as Editor" is the first book to focus exclusively on this
remarkable woman's editorial career. At the age of
forty-six, one of the most famous women in the world went to
work for the first time in twenty-two years. Greg Lawrence,
who had three of his books edited by Jackie, draws from
interviews with more than 125 of her former collaborators
and acquaintances in the publishing world to examine one of
the twentieth century's most enduring subjects of
fascination through a new angle: her previously untouted
skill in the career she chose. Over the last third of her
life, Jackie would master a new industry, weather a very
public professional scandal, and shepherd more than a
hundred books through the increasingly corporate halls of
Viking and Doubleday, publishing authors as diverse as Diana
Vreeland, Louis Auchincloss, George Plimpton, Bill Moyers,
Dorothy West, Naguib Mahfouz, and even Michael Jackson.
"Jackie as Editor "gives intimate new insights into the life
of a complex and enigmatic woman who found fulfillment
through her creative career during book publishing's
legendary Golden Age, and, away from the public eye, quietly
defined life on her own terms.
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