by William Kuhn
24 “I was born in 1946”: Author interview with Conover Hunt, November 14, 2008.
25 “very much Jackie’s dish”: Author interviews with Louis Auchincloss, November 19, 2008, March 24, 2009.
26 “an eighteenth-century woman”: Dorothy Schiff memorandum, dated January 27, 1967, of a meeting with JBK at the Carlyle November 19, 1964, Schiff Papers, NYPL, Box 45, Editorial Files, Onassis, Jacqueline, December 13, 1960, to August 31, 1970.
27 arranged in brief chapters: Olivier Bernier, The Eighteenth-Century Woman (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday/Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1981).
28 Jong believed that she was invited: Author interview with Erica Jong, May 29, 2009.
29 dinner after the seminar: Author interview with Olivier Bernier, April 11, 2008.
30 commissioned a subsequent book: Olivier Bernier, At the Court of Napoleon: Memoirs of the Duchesse d’Abrantès (New York: Doubleday, 1989).
31 entirely Jackie’s idea: Author interview with Olivier Bernier, April 11, 2008.
32 “Being an Edith Wharton fan”: K. L. Kelleher, Jackie: Beyond the Myth of Camelot ([Philadelphia]: Xlibris, 2000), p. 197.
33 “real-life Edith Wharton heroine”: Advertisement for Maverick in Mauve, New York Times, November 13, 1983.
34 “no trace of the baby-doll voice”: 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).
35 “What one can see today”: Louis Auchincloss, False Dawn (Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor/Doubleday, 1984), p. 5.
36 “strides toward emancipation”: Advertisement for False Dawn, New York Times, August 30, 1984.
37 “despite the age’s chauvinism”: Karen Ray, [untitled book review], New York Times, September 16, 1984.
38 “laid an egg”: Author interviews with Louis Auchincloss, November 19, 2008, March 24, 2009.
39 “Just think, Nancy”: Author interviews with Nancy Tuckerman.
40 he should write a book about Byrne: Author interview with Eugene C. Kennedy, January 14, 2009.
41 “all the innocence of a cobra”: Anne Chamberlin, “The Power and the Glory,” Washington Post, December 3, 1982.
42 whether he’d have to leave town: John Blades, “Writing Around the Loop,” Washington Post, September 5, 1982.
43 “No woman would react”: Quoted in Donald Spoto, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis: A Life (New York: St. Martin’s, Press 2000), p. 277.
44 D’Orso remembers: Author interview with Mike D’Orso, May 15, 2009.
45 “a remarkable woman”: Carl Senna, [untitled book review], New York Times, November 13, 1988.
46 “When are you going to come back?”: Author interviews with David Stenn, May 8, 2008, March 26, 2009.
47 one of cinema’s feminist pioneers: Mick Lasalle, quoted in “Norma Shearer,” en.wikipedia.org (accessed May 17, 2010).
48 He remembered the table: Author interview with Steve Wasserman, May 13, 2009.
49 “her feats of personal courage”: Steve Wasserman, “How Remarkable … to Have Lived Such a Life,” Los Angeles Times, May 23, 1994.
CHAPTER 7
1 “wanted to convey her beliefs”: Grace Glueck, “The Nation; The World Through Her Eyes,” New York Times, May 22, 1994; thanks to Peter Kruzan.
2 “I preferred to be on the other side of the camera”: “The Kennedys: An American Family,” DVD (New York: A&E Television Networks, 2009).
3 “a dress of barbed wire”: JBK to Diana Vreeland, February 2, 1961, Diana Vreeland Papers, NYPL, Mss. Coll. 5980, Box 18, folder 18.27.
4 ugly child: Henry Allen, “Diana Vreeland’s Vision of Allure,” Washington Post, November 28, 1980.
5 “San Simeon must have been”: Diana Vreeland, D.V., eds. George Plimpton and Christopher Hemphill, with a new foreword by Mary Louise Wilson (1984; New York: DaCapo Press, 1997), p. 189.
6 “paltry sum”: Diary of Hugo Vickers, November 8, 1990, courtesy of Hugo Vickers.
7 fashion luminary André Leon Talley: André Leon Talley, A.L.T.: A Memoir (New York: Villard, 2003), p. 186.
8 “no pictures of poverty”: Diana Vreeland, Allure (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1980), p. 19.
9 “She shrank to half”: Author interview with William Ewing, April 19, 2010.
10 “fashion is an authentic art form”: Eleanor Dwight, Diana Vreeland (New York: HarperCollins, 2002), p. 89.
11 “exaggerate and embellish”: Ibid., p. 129.
12 “They have their dreary vices”: Oscar Wilde, “The Decay of Lying,” in The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Selected Critical Prose, ed. Linda Dowling (London: Penguin, 2001), p. 169; thanks to Maria Carrig.
13 “an original”: Lynn Langway with Lisa Whitman, “High Priestess of ‘Allure,’ ” Newsweek, September 22, 1980, p. 51.
14 “hands on her hips”: Allen, “Diana Vreeland’s Vision.”
15 “from the corner of her mouth”: Ibid.
16 “She sees like Diaghilev”: Langway with Whitman, “High Priestess.” 146 “a contemporary theory of beauty”: Diana Loercher, “Feminine Beauty: Defining an Enigma,” Christian Science Monitor, January 13, 1981.
17 “the revelation of character”: Francesca Stanfill, “A Vision of Style,” New York Times Magazine, September 14, 1980.
18 Vickers discovered Jackie: Author interviews with Hugo Vickers, January 24, 2008, January 29, 2009.
19 “stuffy and pompous”: Diary of Hugo Vickers, November 8, 1990, courtesy of Hugo Vickers.
20 “ghost stories”: Brian Dillon, “Deborah Turbeville,” Frieze Magazine, no. 103 (November-December 2006), at frieze.com.
21 “we wanted to match”: “Editor’s Note,” in Deborah Turbeville, Unseen Versailles (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1981), p. 18.
22 “soft-focus style”: Vicki Goldberg, “The Hidden Versailles,” New York Times Magazine, September 20, 1981.
23 “These worn-out girls at $1,000 a day”: Stanfill, “A Vision of Style.”
24 “Jacqueline felt that she was a kind of Madame de Pompadour”: K. L. Kelleher, Jackie: Beyond the Myth of Camelot ([Philadelphia]: Xlibris, 2000), p. 142.
25 a great feeling for buildings: Goldberg, “Hidden Versailles.”
26 “On the back stairs”: Quoted in ibid.
27 editorial colleague Jim Fitzgerald: Author interview with Jim Fitzgerald, November 18, 2008.
28 “Looking every lanky inch”: Malcolm Jones, Jr., “Translating Ideas into Color,” Newsweek, January 1, 1990, p. 59.
29 “like bullies”: Eudora Welty, “Introduction,” The Democratic Forest (New York: Doubleday, 1989), p. 12.
30 “She had a sense of humor”: Author interview with Jim Fitzgerald, November 18, 2008.
31 “The First Lady shot”: Letitia Baldrige, In the Kennedy Style: Magical Evenings in the Kennedy White House (New York: Doubleday, 1998), p. 103.
32 promised her the loan: Margaret Leslie Davis, “Mona Lisa” in Camelot (New York: Da Capo, 2008).
33 Angkor Wat: Carl Sferrazza Anthony, As We Remember Her: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis in the Words of Her Family and Friends (New York: Harper-Collins, 1997), p. 232.
34 French photojournalist Marc Riboud: Author interview with Marc Riboud, June 11, 2009.
35 strangely sexy: Author interview with anonymous source.
36 “first to believe that those misty snapshots”: Marc Riboud, Capital of Heaven (New York: Doubleday, 1990), p. 4.
37 “We remained long silent”: François Cheng, “Introduction,” in ibid., p. 18.
38 “For Jackie”: The Estate of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, auction, April 23–26, 1996 (New York: Sotheby’s, 1996), p. 523, lot 1032.
39 Alberto Vitale: Author interview with Alberto Vitale, April 20, 2009.
40 David Morse, a prominent New Yorker: David Streitfeld, “Book Report,” Washington Post, February 16, 1992.
41 She told her Doubleday colleague: Author interview with Martha Levin, May 12
, 2009.
42 “No daughter of mine”: Naguib Mahfouz, Palace Walk, trans. William M. Hutchins and Olive E. Kenny (New York: Doubleday, 1990), p. 157.
43 young photographer Robert Lyons: Author interview with Robert Lyons, June 3, 2009.
44 “Life’s first love”: Naguib Mahfouz, “The Cradle,” trans. Peter Theroux, in Robert Lyons, Egyptian Time (New York: Doubleday, 1992), p. 9.
45 “Why don’t I do a book?”: Author interview with Sidney Frissell Stafford, May 26, 2009.
46 “When we give a dinner party”: Toni Frissell, Photographs: 1933–1967 (New York: Doubleday/Library of Congress, 1994), p. xii.
47 Tuskegee Airmen: Martin W. Sandler, America Through the Lens: Photographers Who Changed the Nation (New York: Henry Holt, 2005), p. 149ff.
48 “We had gone through”: Author interview with Peter Kruzan, May 13, 2009.
49 “It was kind of uncomfortable”: Author interview with Sidney Frissell Stafford, May 26, 2009.
50 “not your typical coffee-table photography book”: Marjorie Kaufman, “Photographer ‘Plucked from Oblivion,’ ” New York Times, August 28, 1994.
51 “I was sitting in a chair”: Pamela Fiori, “Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis 1929–1994,” Town & Country, July 1994, p. 48.
52 “Now, scamper in”: Author interview with Bill Swan, October 6, 2008.
53 “I don’t think my mother”: Kaufman, “Photographer ‘Plucked from Oblivion.’ ”
54 “but works of art”: John Pope-Hennessy, Learning to Look (New York: Doubleday, 1991), p. 3.
55 “surnaturel”: Author interview with Marc Riboud, June 11, 2009.
CHAPTER 8
1 “It was eviscerated”: Author interviews with David Stenn, May 8, 2008, March 26, 2009.
2 “one of the rankest places”: Gelsey Kirkland with Greg Lawrence, Dancing on My Grave: An Autobiography (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1986), p. 272.
3 She accused Lawrence of manipulating her: Ibid., p. 276.
4 men in Kirkland’s life: Ibid., p. 284.
5 “I developed the habit”: Ibid., p. 50.
6 she lost her confidence: Ibid., p. 20.
7 twisting the femur: Ibid., p. 34.
8 “was a mixture of convent and harem”: Ibid., p. 40.
9 had silicone injected: Ibid., p. 108.
10 radio in her hotel room: Ibid., pp. 89–90.
11 “After groping with buttons”: Ibid., p. 127.
12 “so intense and panicky”: Deborah Jowitt, “Through the Flames on Thin Soles,” New York Times, October 19, 1986.
13 “one of the saddest stories”: Jennifer Dunning, “Out of Pain,” New York Times, November 15, 1986.
14 “crudely sensationalist”: Alan M. Kriegsman, “Dance of Death; Gelsey Kirkland’s Harrowing Story,” Washington Post, December 14, 1986.
15 “the Judy Garland of ballet”: Harris Green, “The Judy Garland of Ballet,” Ballet Review 14 (Winter 1987): 77–80.
16 caused trouble for her there: Gelsey Kirkland and Greg Lawrence, in A Tribute to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (New York: Doubleday, 1995), p. 13.
17 “She’s a little nuts”: Author interview with Steve Rubin, November 17, 2008.
18 “high-maintenance”: Author interviews with Bruce Tracy, September 15, 2008, March 23, 2009.
19 “There wasn’t much of a direct relationship there”: Author interview with Scott Moyers, November 18, 2008.
20 book-signing tour: Author interview with Herman Gollob, April 1, 2009.
21 “diet food”: Marta Sgubin and Nancy Nicholas, Cooking for Madam: Recipes and Reminiscences from the Home of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (New York: Scribner, 1998), p. 22.
22 “Edna! I’ve always been thin”: Edna O’Brien, contribution to “Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: The White House Years,” JFKL Forum, February 3, 2002.
23 tear at her hands: Author interviews with Karl Katz, March 25 and May 27, 2009.
24 flossy underclothes: See Sarah Bradford’s interviews with Puffin D’Oench in America’s Queen: The Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (New York: Penguin, 2001), p. 204.
25 “I picked it up”: Author interview with Sarah Giles, January 30, 2009.
26 hostile review: Jules Feiffer, “Without Top Hat,” New York Times, December 18, 1988.
27 Astaire’s shyness and his elegance: Sarah Giles, Fred Astaire: His Friends Talk (New York: Doubleday, 1988), p. 44.
28 “graceful movement of the horses”: Ibid., p. 180.
29 “I first saw him”: Quoted in Julie Kavanagh, Nureyev: The Life (New York: Pantheon, 2007), p. 281: John Lombardi, “Nureyev’s Fight Against Time,” New York Times, December 13, 1981. See also Diane Solway, Nureyev: His Life (New York: Morrow, 1998), pp. 275, 454.
30 dressing room backstage: Carolyn Soutar, The Real Nureyev: An Intimate Memoir of Ballet’s Greatest Hero (Edinburgh: Mainstream, 2004), p. 83; Solway, Nureyev, p. 338.
31 dance critic Francis Mason: Author interview with Francis Mason, November 18, 2008.
32 Edward Kasinec: Author interview with Edward Kasinec, May 13, 2009.
33 house on St. Bart’s: Solway, Nureyev, p. 523.
34 She asked Ted Kennedy: Ibid., p. 483; Kavanagh, Nureyev, p. 618.
35 history of homosexuality: The Estate of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, auction, April 23–26, 1996 (New York: Sotheby’s, 1996), p. 125, lot 182. A. L. Rowse, Homosexuals in History: A Study of Ambivalence in Society, Literature and the Arts (New York: Macmillan, 1977), was considered important enough by Sotheby’s to be sold as a lot by itself, that is, separate from other books: “The rear fly-leaves and free endpaper are filled with brief autograph notes by Mrs. Onassis about various authors and artists discussed in the text. Many page corners in the volume have been turned down for quick reference.” Sold for more than $5,000.
36 “She gave some money”: Author interview with Francis Mason, November 18, 2008.
37 “Martha gave him the world”: Felicia R. Lee, “Graham Legacy, On the Stage Again,” New York Times, September 29, 2004. Agnes de Mille also takes a hostile view of Protas in her biography, Martha: The Life and Work of Martha Graham (New York: Random House, 1956, 1991), pp. 382–83ff.
38 “I brought Jackie backstage”: Quoted in Gayle Feldman, “Martha Graham ‘Revealing a Life’ in a Fall Autobiography from Doubleday,” Publishers Weekly, April 26, 1991, p. 38.
39 Blood Memory: For an explanation of this term, see Martha Graham, Blood Memory (New York: Doubleday, 1991), p. 9.
40 “Always I have resisted”: Ibid., p. 17.
41 “doom eager”: Ibid., p. 118.
42 “ ‘She never would have been”: Ibid., pp. 211–12.
43 “I could eat you up”: Ibid., p. 184.
44 “I went to Jackie”: Author interview with Francis Mason, November 18, 2008; Francis Mason, “Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, 1929–1994,” Ballet Review 23 (Spring 1995): 4.
45 “Blame it on me”: Ibid., p. 6.
46 thirty-fifth anniversary: Carolyn M. Mulac, [review of Jamison, Dancing Spirit], Library Journal, November 1, 1993, p. 95.
47 Kaplan recalled an adventure: Author interview with Howard Kaplan, April 1, 2009.
48 “I just come from a legacy”: K. L. Kelleher, Jackie: Beyond the Myth of Camelot ([Philadelphia]: Xlibris, 2000), p. 124.
49 “blood memories”: Judith Jamison with Howard Kaplan, Dancing Spirit: An Autobiography (New York: Doubleday, 1993), pp. 186, 72.
50 “she was having trouble in those days”: Ibid., p. 171.
51 a dancer is at her most moving: Ibid., p. 208.
52 “carelessly edited and produced”: Doris Hering, “Dancing Spirit,” Dance Magazine, July 1994, p. 78.
53 Ailey and other dancers, such as Nureyev, had died of AIDS: Deirdre Kelly, “Can’t Separate the Dancer from the Dance,” Toronto Star, December 4, 1993.
54 “Her physical manners”: Marie Brenner, Great Dames: What I Learned from Older Women (New York: Crown, 2000), p. 113.
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bsp; 55 “The rules of classroom decorum”: Kirkland, Dancing on My Grave, p. 31.
CHAPTER 9
1 “meretricious charm”: Marietta Tree, Oral History, second interview, JFKL, p. 24.
2 “tomboy and dream princess”: C. David Heymann, A Woman Named Jackie (London: Heinemann, 1989), p. 30; 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. 36.
3 “could strike with severity”: Hugh D. Auchincloss III, “Growing Up with Jackie, My Memories, 1941–1953,” originally published in Groton School Quarterly 60, no. 2 (May 1998): 2; in Papers of Hugh D. Auchincloss III, JFKL.
4 “undemocratic to wear a tiara”: JBK to Diana Vreeland, September 7, 1960, Vreeland Papers, NYPL, Mss. Coll. 5980, Box 18, Folder 18.27.
5 “The Queen had her revenge”: Sarah Bradford, America’s Queen: The Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (New York: Penguin, 2001), p. 269.
6 what notable manners she had: Author interviews with Philip Mansel, February 4, 2009, and Lady Antonia Fraser, February 7, 2009.
7 “must be acceptable to me”: Jan Pottker, Janet and Jackie: The Story of a Mother and Her Daughter, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2001), pp. 238–39.
8 curt with William Manchester: William Manchester, Controversy and Other Essays in Journalism, 1950–1975 (Boston: Little, Brown, 1976), pp. 39, 59.
9 Sorensen wrote: Ted Sorensen, Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History (New York: HarperCollins, 2008), pp. 248-49, 267.
10 “How dare you use my name?”: Author interview with Tom Cahill, February 19, 2009.
11 Jackie’s assistant Judy Sandman: Author interview with Herman Gollob, April 1, 2009.
12 “vulgarly out of hand”: Oleg Cassini, A Thousand Days of Magic: Dressing Jacqueline Kennedy for the White House (New York: Rizzoli, 1995), pp. 29–30.
13 “a gentleman never tells whom he’s sleeping with”: Author interview with Howard Kaplan, April 1, 2009.
14 “We were obsessed!”: Author interview with Jane Hitchcock, February 23, 2008.
15 box that had once belonged to Marie Antoinette: The Estate of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, auction, April 23–26, 1996 (New York: Sotheby’s, 1996), p. 200, lot 309.