Articles and other published sources for this period included Eleanor Harris, “The Senator Is in a Hurry,” McCall’s, August 1957; Herbert Parmet, Jack: The Struggles of John F. Kennedy (New York: Dial Press, 1980); “The Senate’s Gay Young Bachelor,” Saturday Evening Post, June 13, 1953; “How to be a Presidential Candidate,” New York Times Magazine, July 13, 1958; “Behind the Scenes,” Time, May 5, 1958; Luella R. Hennessey, “Bringing Up the Kennedys,” Good Housekeeping, August 1961; “Joe Kennedy’s Feelings About His Son,” Life, December 19, 1960; Susan Sheehan, “The Happy Jackie, the Sad Jackie, the Bad Jackie, the Good Jackie,” New York Times Magazine, May 31, 1970; “This Is John Fitzgerald Kennedy,” Newsweek, June 23, 1958; “Most Talked-About Candidate for 1960,” U.S. News & World Report, November 8, 1957; Mary Van Rensselaer Thayer, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1961); John H. David, The Bouviers: Portrait of an American Family (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1969); Thomas C. Reeves, A Question of Character (New York: Free Press, 1991); “Jackie Kennedy: First Lady at 30?” U.S. News & World Report, September 1960; Mary Van Rensselaer Thayer, “First Years of the First Lady,” Ladies’ Home Journal, February 1961; Dave Powers, “I Have Never Met Anyone Like Her,” Life, August 1995.
Chapters 6–8
For these chapters, the author drew on conversations with John Kenneth Galbraith, Oleg Cassini, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., George Smathers, Roswell Gilpatric, Pierre Salinger, Theodore Sorensen, Jacques Lowe, Angier Biddle Duke, Linus Pauling, Charles Bartlett, Letitia Baldrige, Tony Bradlee, Helen Thomas, Betty Beale, Chuck Spalding, Larry Newman, Pat Lawford, Alan Jay Lerner, Ham Brown, Halston, Nancy Tuckerman, Hugh D. “Yusha” Auchincloss III, Charles Collingwood, Dorothy Schoenbrun, Dorothy Oliger, Mollie Fosburgh, Harry Winston, Charles Furneaux, Shana Alexander, Fred Friendly, Alfred Eisenstaedt. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis’s oral history was done by Terry L. Birdwhistell in New York on May 13, 1981, as part of the John Sherman Cooper Oral History Project at the University of Kentucky Library. Other oral histories that proved helpful include: Pope Paul VI, Hubert H. Humphrey, Averell Harriman, Katharine Graham, Claiborne Pell, Nicholas Katzenbach, Lorraine Cooper, Albert Gore, Admiral George Burkley, Lucius Clay, William Walton, Walt Rostow, Jacob Javits, Dave Powers, Pamela Turnure, Laura Knebel, Clement Norton, Gloria Sitrin, Kay Halle, Traphes Bryant, Myer Feldman, Joseph Karatis, Chris Camp, James Young, Barbara Gamarekian, Kenneth Burke. The Katharine Graham and Liz Carpenter Oral Histories are available at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library. Published sources include Hugh Sidey, “The First Lady Brings History and Beauty to the White House,” Life, September 1, 1961; Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy (New York: Hyperion, 2011); Anne Taylor Fleming, “The Kennedy Mystique,” New York Times Magazine, June 17, 1979; Philip Nobile and Ron Rosenblum, “The Curious Aftermath of JFK’s Best and Brightest Affair,” New York Times Magazine, July 9, 1976; “Queen of America,” Time, March 23, 1962; Gerri Hirshey, “The Last Act of Judith Exner,” Vanity Fair, April 1990; Mimi Alford, Once Upon a Secret: My Affair with John F. Kennedy and Its Aftermath (New York: Random House, 2012); Kitty Kelley, Capturing Camelot (New York: A Thomas Dunne Book/St. Martin’s Press, 2012); Thomas Maier, The Kennedys: America’s Emerald Kings (New York: Basic Books, 2004).
Chapters 9 and 10
Information for these chapters was based in part on conversations with Arthur Schlesinger Jr., George Plimpton, Letitia Baldrige, Pierre Salinger, Oleg Cassini, Charles Bartlett, Chuck Spalding, John Kenneth Galbraith, Martha Bartlett, Richard B. Stolley, Dr. Janet Travell, Peter Duchin, Paul “Red” Fay, Hugh D. “Yusha” Auchincloss III, Evelyn Lincoln, David Halberstam, George Smathers, Theodore Sorensen, Jack Valenti, Jacques Lowe, Godfrey McHugh, William S. Paley, Sandy Richardson, Jamie Auchincloss, John Bryson, Paula Dranov, Cranston Jones, Clare Boothe Luce, Roswell Gilpatric. The author also drew on numerous oral histories, including Dave Powers, Kenneth P. O’Donnell, Lawrence O’Brien, Luella Hennessey, Herve Alphand, James Reed, Burke Marshall, Dean Rusk, Robert McNamara, Pierre Salinger, Walt Rostow, Janet Auchincloss, Joseph Alsop, August Heckscher, Lorraine Cooper, Lem Billings, John Sherman Cooper, Richard Cardinal Cushing. Among the published sources: Jacqueline Kennedy, “How He Really Was,” Life, May 29, 1964; Robert Ajemian, “A Man’s Week to Reckon,” Life, July 3, 1964; Theodore Sorensen, “If Kennedy Had Lived,” Look, October 19, 1965; Jack Anderson, Washington Expose (Washington, D.C.: Public Affairs Press, 1967); Lawrence K. Altman and Todd S. Purdum, “In J.F.K. File, Hidden Illness, Pain and Pills,” New York Times, November 17, 2002; Ted Widmer, Listening In: The Secret White House Recordings of John F. Kennedy (New York: Hyperion, 2012); Sally Bedell Smith, Grace and Power (New York: Random House, 2004); “The Kennedys’ Jesuit,” Georgetown Voice, January 15, 2004; Helen Kennedy, “Jackie Kennedy Tapes Unveil True Feelings,” New York Daily News, September 13, 2011; Christopher Hitchens, “Widow of Opportunity,” Vanity Fair, December 2011; Janny Scott, “In Tapes, Candid Talk by a Young Widow,” New York Times, September 11, 2011; Andy Soltis, “Well, That’s a Tough Day,” New York Post, January 25, 2012.
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