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A review by bkish
And They Called It Camelot: A Novel of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis by Stephanie Marie Thornton
4.0
Stephanie Thornton the biographer or historical fiction writer took on a huge task in writing about the life of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis and covering period of about 40y. Most everyone knows her name.
Jackie was a well educated very polished and beautiful young woman age 23 when she married into the Kennedy family. She was the perfect person for that family and without her JFK might not have been elected President himself a young man and an Irish Catholic with a father whose reputation was bad altho he was very wealthy. She loved her husband and she especially loved her children Caroline and John Jr (he died in crash with his new wife and friends when he was piloting the plane and he was young and it was after Jackie died of cancer.
At time reading this I would realize that based in some truths this is fiction. Yet I continued to read as it is extremely well written and sensitive to her character.
Jackie had much tragedy in her life and the Kennedy family has seen thru the generations many tragedies.
Very well done book and a huge undertaking...
Judy
Jackie was a well educated very polished and beautiful young woman age 23 when she married into the Kennedy family. She was the perfect person for that family and without her JFK might not have been elected President himself a young man and an Irish Catholic with a father whose reputation was bad altho he was very wealthy. She loved her husband and she especially loved her children Caroline and John Jr (he died in crash with his new wife and friends when he was piloting the plane and he was young and it was after Jackie died of cancer.
At time reading this I would realize that based in some truths this is fiction. Yet I continued to read as it is extremely well written and sensitive to her character.
Jackie had much tragedy in her life and the Kennedy family has seen thru the generations many tragedies.
Very well done book and a huge undertaking...
Judy