And They Called It Camelot: A Novel of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis - Stephanie Marie Thornton Audiobook

Written by Stephanie Marie Thornton
Read by Cassandra Campbell
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
Release date: March 10, 2020
Duration: 17:12:22

An intimate portrait of the life of Jackie O…

Few of us can claim to be the authors of our fate. Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy knows no other choice. With the eyes of the world watching, Jackie uses her effortless charm and keen intelligence to carve a place for herself among the men of history and weave a fairy tale for the American people, embodying a senator’s wife, a devoted mother, a First Lady—a queen in her own right.

But all reigns must come to an end. Once JFK travels to Dallas and the clock ticks down those thousand days of magic in Camelot, Jackie is forced to pick up the ruined fragments of her life and forge herself into a new identity that is all her own, that of an American legend.

“The focus is on the highs and lows of Jackie’s life: the early years of her marriage, her renovation of the White House, her husband’s assassination, and her subsequent relationships with both Robert Kennedy and Aristotle Onassis. Jackie was a notoriously private person, but Thornton’s (American Princess, 2019) author’s note details the situations where the historical record is unclear. Readers will quickly realize that the fairytale world of Camelot wasn’t what it seemed and that Jackie’s story is full of hidden pain. An excellent choice for fans of historical fiction that explores the inner lives of women.”…Booklist,