by William Kuhn
16 New York was more like the French court: Jane Stanton Hitchcock, Social Crimes (New York: Hyperion, 2003), p. 244.
17 commissioned work from Jacqueline Duhême: Jacqueline Duhême, Mrs. Kennedy Goes Abroad, introduction by John Kenneth Galbraith, text by Vighuti Pavel (New York: Artisan/Callaway, 1998), p. 26.
18 the French painter Marcel Vertès: Property from Kennedy Family Homes: Hyannis Port, Martha’s Vineyard, New Jersey, New York, Virginia (New York: Sotheby’s, 2005), p. 340, lot 633. Sotheby’s 1996 sale showed that Jackie also owned a volume by Francis Carco: Vertès, lot 699, p. 419.
19 “What a cruel fate!”: K. L. Kelleher, Jackie: Beyond the Myth of Camelot ([Philadelphia]: Xlibris, 2000), p. 62.
20 something Josephine might have worn: Cassini, A Thousand Days of Magic, p. 181.
21 exhibition at the Costume Institute: The Age of Napoleon: Costume from Revolution to Empire, 1789–1815, ed. Katell Le Bourhis (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art/Abrams, 1989).
22 très Princesse de Réthy: Cassini, A Thousand Days of Magic, pp. 29–30.
23 “Amriki Rani”: “Delhi Gives Rousing Welcome to the ‘Amriki Rani,’ ” Blitz Newsmagazine, March 17, 1962; thanks to Eric Pullin.
24 “a fraud”: Galbraith, “Introduction,” in Duhême, Mrs. Kennedy Goes Abroad, pp. 6–9.
25 the arrival of Girlfriend: John Kenneth Galbraith to Jim Wagner, June 1, 1998, Galbraith Papers, JFKL, Series 3, Box 211, file “Kennedy Library 1993–99.”
26 “Don’t you think she’s old enough?”: Kelleher, Jackie, p. 172; Duhême, Mrs. Kennedy Goes Abroad, p. 7.
27 among the most sensuous men she had ever met: Lee Radziwill, afterword, in Jacqueline Bouvier and Lee Bouvier, One Special Summer (New York: Rizzoli, 2006).
28 “original inspiration”: Naveen Patnaik, A Second Paradise: Indian Courtly Life, 1590–1947 (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1985), p. 5.
29 “she literally had two pairs”: Dominick Dunne, “Forever Jackie,” Vanity Fair, July 1994, p. 137.
30 “pages of research material”: Quoted in Edward Klein, “The Other Jackie O.,” Vanity Fair, August 1989, p. 100.
31 “caressed [it] lovingly”: John F. Baker, “Editors at Work: Star Behind the Scenes,” Publishers Weekly, April 19, 1993, p. 20.
32 “erotic spells”: Patnaik, A Second Paradise, p. 103.
33 “The beautiful courtesan”: Ibid., p. 132.
34 “They’re like the Folies Bergères”: Author interviews with Edith Welch, April 19 and May 18, 2009.
35 “he talked to me frequently”: Author interview with Navina Haykel, May 14, 2009.
36 She approached Mark Zebrowski: Author interview with Robert Alderman (partner of Zebrowski), March 21, 2009; JKO to Zebrowski, partly quoted in William Dalrymple, “The Lost World,” Guardian, December 8, 2007; unquoted portions of JKO to Mark Zebrowski courtesy of Robert Alderman and with thanks to William Dalrymple.
37 “very much in Jackie’s style”: Author interview with Jann Wenner, April 8, 2009.
38 live in a mud hut: Author interview with Jonathan Cott, February 23, 2008.
39 “I remember the ancient garden was here”: John Anthony West, “She Had Her Life to Live Over,” New York Times, July 26, 1987.
40 she had seen the same paragraph: Rosemary L. Bray, “Astral Trysts and Egyptology,” New York Times, July 26, 1987.
41 particularly proud of the Blue Room: Carl Sferrazza Anthony, As We Remember Her: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis in the Words of Her Family and Friends (New York: HarperCollins, 1997), p. 141.
42 limited-edition book: Estate of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, 1996, p. 526, lot 1056; see also André Malraux, “Préface,” in André Parrot, Sumer (Paris: Librairie Gallimard, 1960), illustration XIV B, “Fécondité.”
43 “It’s one of the most precious things”: Author interview with Jonathan Cott, February 23, 2008.
44 Noblecourt had also acted as their guide: Kelleher, Jackie, p. 131.
45 “Perhaps these passionate affairs”: West, “Her Life to Live Over.”
46 “the glamour, the glory”: Francis Mason, “Beautiful, Wild and of Another World,” New York Times, September 8, 1991.
47 “intrigued by the Russian Revolution”: Author interview with Jane Hitchcock, February 23, 2008.
48 During this visit with Hoving: Thomas Hoving, Making the Mummies Dance: Inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993), pp. 390–95.
49 “she was a tsarina”: Author interview with Edvard Radzinsky, May 3, 2009; A Tribute to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (New York: Doubleday, 1995), pp. 23–25.
50 DNA testing: Thomas H. Maugh II, “DNA Testing Ends Mystery Surrounding Czar Nicholas II Children,” Los Angeles Times, March 11, 2009; Mike Eckel, “DNA Tests May Confirm IDs of Russian Tsar’s Children,” National Geographic News, April 30, 2008.
51 literary agent Lynn Franklin: Author interviews with Lynn Franklin, February 20 and May 28, 2009.
52 “ ‘No cuts’ ”: A Tribute to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, p. 24.
53 the translator, Marian Schwartz: Author interview with Marian Schwartz, May 5, 2009.
54 “They sipped unsweetened tea”: Edvard Radzinsky, The Last Tsar: The Life and Death of Nicholas II, trans. Marian Schwartz (New York: Doubleday, 1992), p. 8.
55 “the Archive of Blood”: Ibid., p. 10.
56 “was the woman who had had the same tragedy”: Author interview with Edvard Radzinsky, May 3, 2009.
57 He remembered meeting her: Author interview with Ion Trewin, June 16, 2009.
58 “our nightly conversations”: Radzinsky, Last Tsar, pp. 8, 26.
59 “I just couldn’t look at that”: Diane Solway, Nureyev: His Life (New York: Morrow, 1998), p. 456.
60 jumped several feet out of her seat: Hugo Vickers, Cecil Beaton: The Authorized Biography (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1985), p. 520.
61 “It was a terrible mistake”: Author interviews with Karl Katz, March 25 and May 27, 2009.
62 purchased a harlequin design: JBK to Cecil Beaton, June 3, 1968, Cecil Beaton Papers, St. John’s College, Cambridge.
CHAPTER 10
1 “the artistic sensibilities”: JBK to Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., undated [1962?], Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Papers, JFKL, Writings, A Thousand Days—Background Material, JBK correspondence 1961–65.
2 “But I love her”: Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., Journals: 1952–2000, eds. Andrew Schlesinger and Stephen Schlesinger (New York: Penguin, 2007), p. 155.
3 “too much status and not enough quo”: Kitty Kelley, Jackie Oh! (Secaucus, N.J.: Lyle Stuart, 1978), p. 49.
4 drab and compassionate: John Kenneth Galbraith to Edward M. Kennedy, June 9, 1971, Galbraith Papers, JFKL, Series 3, Box 211, correspondence files, “Edward Kennedy 1970–77.”
5 John Loring used to lunch: Author interview with John Loring, May 14, 2009.
6 “she liked him”: Author interviews with Nancy Tuckerman.
7 Tiffany Table Settings: Tiffany Table Settings (New York: Crowell/Bramhall House, 1960).
8 famous hostesses and decorators: Marilyn Bethany, “Design: Tales of Tables at Tiffany’s,” New York Times, August 30, 1981.
9 top sellers on Jackie’s list: Sales figures courtesy of Doubleday.
10 “a unique social document”: John Loring, Tiffany Parties (New York: Doubleday, 1989), p. 20.
11 it is clear from the book’s acknowledgments: John Loring, Tiffany Taste (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1986), p. 224.
12 “Pan Am is on page 1”: JKO to John Loring, undated, courtesy of John Loring.
13 book party held at Le Cirque: Carol Vogel, “Home Design: Travels with Tiffany,” New York Times, August 31, 1986; “Toasting Tiffany,” W, October 20–27, 1986.
14 “Let’s try to liberate the American girl”: Edward Klein, Just Jackie: Her Private Years (New York: Ballantine, 1998), p. 322.
15 “tacky”: Hugh D. Auchincloss III, “Growing Up with Jackie, My Memories, 1941–
1953,” originally published in Groton School Quarterly 60, no. 2 (May 1998): 6; in Papers of Hugh D. Auchincloss III, JFKL.
16 “nicest kindest most life enhancing person to work with”: JKO to John Loring, undated, courtesy of John Loring.
17 “floating palace Christina”: Quoted in John Loring, Tiffany Parties (New York: Doubleday, 1989), p. 10.
18 “the world of New York society women”: Carl Sferrazza Anthony, As We Remember Her: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis in the Words of Her Family and Friends (New York: HarperCollins, 1997), p. 261.
19 Marble House in Newport: Loring, Tiffany Parties, p. 19.
20 “The Literary Lions Dinner”: Ibid., p. 176.
21 “Those people have really got my back up”: Author interview with John Loring, May 14, 2010.
22 “What it needs is a different beginning”: JKO to John Loring, February 4 [1992?], courtesy of John Loring.
23 “Don’t worry”: Author interview with Elizabeth Crook, May 22, 2009.
24 “etiquette of consumerism”: Holly Brubach, “Profiles: Giving Good Value,” The New Yorker, August 10, 1992, p. 35.
25 “I just loved your letter”: JKO to John Loring, undated [1994?], courtesy of John Loring.
26 Magnificent Tiffany Silver: John Loring, Magnificent Tiffany Silver (New York: Abrams, 2001).
27 “so like Mummy”: Caroline Kennedy to John Loring, postmarked November 28, 2001, courtesy of John Loring.
28 “I knew her when she was a girl”: Author interviews with Louis Auchincloss, November 19, 2008, March 24, 2009.
29 recent Irish immigrants: Sarah Bradford, America’s Queen (New York: Penguin, 2001), p. 7.
30 “It reminds me of listening”: Quoted in K. L. Kelleher, Jackie: Beyond the Myth of Camelot ([Philadelphia]: Xlibris, 2000), p. 196.
31 “As it now stands”: Ibid.
32 “a small but very interesting document”: John Kenneth Galbraith, quoted on back cover of Florence Adele Sloane, Maverick in Mauve, with commentary by Louis Auchincloss (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1983).
33 “like Alice in Wonderland”: Author interview with Mary-Sargent d’Anglejan-Chatillon, November 17, 2009.
34 “I dreamed of a lost and glamorous past”: Preface to Mary-Sargent Ladd, The Frenchwoman’s Bedroom (New York: Doubleday, 1991).
35 an article in House & Garden: See Jean Leymarie and Jacques Dirand, “Chalet Balthus,” House & Garden, December 1987, pp. 108–10.
36 “The association between”: Christopher Hitchens, “Divine Decadence,” in Graydon Carter and the Editors of Vanity Fair, Vanity Fair: The Portraits, A Century of Iconic Images (New York: Abrams, 2008), p. 7.
37 “gracious living or fashion”: Dorothy Schiff memorandum, October 14, 1964, Dorothy Schiff Papers, NYPL, Box 45, Onassis 1960–70 file.
CHAPTER 11
1 she told the journalist Theodore White: See Joyce Hoffmann, “How ‘Camelot’ Lived Happily Ever After: The Rainy Evening When Jackie Kennedy Invented Our National Myth,” Washington Post, May 21, 1995 [photocopy], and White’s notes in Theodore White Papers, JFKL, Series 11, Camelot Documents.
2 “Do you remember those days”: JBK to Harold Macmillan, January 31, 1964, Papers of Harold Macmillan, Lord Stockton, Bodleian Library, Oxford, MS. Macmillan deposit C. 553, folios 1–4.
3 Any contribution of a thousand dollars or more: Oral history of Pamela Turnure and Nancy Tuckerman, JFKL, p. 48.
4 “She wanted me to delete”: Ted Sorensen, Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History (New York: HarperCollins, 2008), 148–49.
5 she stage-managed the dedication ceremony: Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., Journals: 1952–2000, eds. Andrew Schlesinger and Stephen Schlesinger (New York: Penguin, 2007), p. 472.
6 “there goes Lady Bird”: Author interviews with Nancy Tuckerman.
7 wrote a letter of protest: Draft letter JBK to Richard Neustadt, head of Kennedy Institute of Politics, August 1968, marked “not sent,” in Galbraith Papers, JFKL, Box 212, “Kennedy Library.”
8 She approached Eugene Kennedy: Donald Spoto, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis: A Life (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000), pp. 275–76; also author interview with Eugene C. Kennedy, January 14, 2009.
9 Daley’s election-night machinations: Eugene C. Kennedy, Himself! The Life and Times of Mayor Richard J. Daley (New York: Viking, 1978), pp. 184–86.
10 Her editorial colleague: Lisa Drew e-mail to author, December 3, 2008.
11 “chivalry is not dead”: JKO to John Kenneth Galbraith, undated [1993?], Galbraith papers, JFKL, Box 430, file “Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy, 1991–1994.”
12 “When it’s past”: Carl Sferrazza Anthony, As We Remember Her: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis in the Words of Her Family and Friends (New York: Harper-Collins, 1997), p. 334.
13 When Cahill pursued her idea: Author interview with Tom Cahill, February 19, 2009.
14 social division between whites and Latinos: Stewart L. Udall, To the Inland Empire: Coronado and Our Spanish Legacy, photographs by Jerry Jacka (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1987), p. 8.
15 “Let’s do it”: Author interviews with Stewart Udall, March 26 and April 28 and 29, 2009; author interviews with Jerry Jacka, May 23, June 7, and August 26, 2009; also L. Boyd Finch, Legacies of Camelot: Stewart and Lee Udall, American Culture, and the Arts (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008), p. 129.
16 “absolutely knocked out”: JKO to Lee and Stewart Udall, June 11, 1984, Stewart L. Udall Papers, University of Arizona, Tucson.
17 “more humane”: Stewart Udall, “A Concept Outline—The Coronado Book for Doubleday,” April 23, 1984, in ibid.; also in JFKL, Miscellaneous Accessions, Stewart Udall, 2009–007.
18 “I wish you would rewrite it”: JKO to Udall, February 11, 1986, in Udall Papers, University of Arizona.
19 “Only the Most Important authors”: JKO to Udall, February 26, 1987, JFKL, Miscellaneous Accessions, Stewart Udall, 2009-007.
20 “I: poor as I am”: Quoted in Udall, Inland Empire, p. 215.
21 book party at Doubleday: “Personalities,” Washington Post, October 21, 1987.
22 Spanish government honored Udall: Udall to JKO, March 14, 1989, Udall Papers, University of Arizona.
23 “Please tell Lloyd”: JKO to Udall, August 22, 1993, in ibid.
24 “one of the most heart-stopping experiences”: JKO to Lee Udall, March 9, 1994, in ibid.
25 “ ‘This is a great story’ ”: Author interview with Mike D’Orso, May 15, 2009.
26 “I am sure this novel”: John Seymour to JKO, March 26, 1992, and other thank-you notes for The Cost of Courage, Doubleday papers.
27 crass remarks about money: Carl Elliott, Sr., and Michael D’Orso, The Cost of Courage: The Journey of an American Congressman (New York: Doubleday, 1992), pp. 129–30, 136.
28 his second son published: Robert Francis Kennedy, Judge Frank M. Johnson, Jr.: A Biography (New York: Putnam, 1978).
29 a third of his manuscript: Frank M. Johnson, Jr., to JKO, November 26, 1979, Doubleday papers.
30 how to get his book into print: Frank M. Johnson, Jr., to JKO, September 13, 1989, Doubleday papers.
31 Jack Bass, a newspaper journalist: Author interview with Jack Bass, April 6, 2009; Jack Bass, Unlikely Heroes: The Dramatic Story of the Southern Judges of the Fifth Circuit Who Translated the Supreme Court’s Brown Decision into a Revolution for Equality (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1981); Jack Bass, “Onassis the Editor: A Professional,” Atlanta Journal and Constitution, May 23, 1994.
32 “if he wanted forgiveness”: Quoted in Harris Wofford, “A Righteous Alabamian,” New York Times, February 7, 1993.
33 “gave true meaning to the word ‘justice’ ”: Ibid.
34 afraid of offending bigoted southern white voters: Jack Bass, Taming the Storm: The Life and Times of Judge Frank M. Johnson, Jr., and the South’s Fight over Civil Rights (New York: Doubleday, 1993), pp. 169–72.
35 he ended as an editor: John Updike, “The Talk of the Town: Comment,”
The New Yorker, August 2, 1999, p. 23. For John Kennedy, Jr.’s interview with George Wallace, see the inaugural issue of George, October-November 1995.
36 a job she was considering at the CIA: Prix de Paris application file, Vogue, JFKL.
37 friends with Leonid Tarassuk: “Soviet Museum Said to Oust Aide Seeking Visa to Israel,” New York Times, July 13, 1972; Lionel Leventhal, “And Another Thing: Working with the Soviets,” Logos 13, no. 2 (2002): 117–18.
38 the dancer Valery Panov: “Soviet Withholds Exit Visa from Panov, Kirov Dancer,” New York Times, September 11, 1973.
39 Tarassuk’s daughter, Irina: Author interview with Irina Clow, October 12, 2009.
40 died in an automobile accident: “Obituaries: Museum Researcher and His Wife Die in a Crash in France,” New York Times, September 16, 1990.
41 Philip Myers was an attorney: Philip Myers, “Squished,” unpublished manuscript, courtesy of Philip Myers; author interviews with Philip Myers, September 1 and 3 and December 21, 2009.
42 She also went to Mort Janklow: Morton L. Janklow to JKO, February 4, 1992, courtesy of Philip Myers.
43 hadn’t been an accident: Author interviews with Karl Katz, March 25 and May 27, 2009.
44 intentional obfuscation: Thomas Hoving, Making the Mummies Dance: Inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993), p. 393.
45 Jackie had faxed her a three-page letter: JKO to Irina Clow, undated [April 4, 1992?], courtesy of Philip Myers.
46 jog around the reservoir in Central Park: Nancy Tuckerman, “A Personal Reminiscence,” The Estate of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, auction, April 23–26, 1996 (New York: Sotheby’s, 1996), p. 26.
CHAPTER 12
1 “The marriage of publishing and politics”: “The Kennedys: An American Family,” DVD, 2 discs (New York: A & E Television Networks, 2009); “JFK Jr George Magazine,” YouTube.com (accessed April 24, 2010).
2 “starring in everybody’s home movies”: The Eloquent Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: A Portrait in Her Own Words, ed. Bill Adler (New York: HarperCollins, 2004), p. 112.