Barbara Leaning: Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis

Barbara Leaning: Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis – The Untold Story. 2014
Ljudbok (Åbo stadsbibliotek 13 h 23 min)

Barbara Leaming’s extraordinary and deeply sensitive biography is the first book to document Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis’ brutal, lonely and valiant thirty-one year struggle with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) that followed JFK’s assassination.

Leaming’s biography makes clear the pattern of Jackie’s life as a whole. We see how a spirited young woman’s rejection of a predictable life led her to John F. Kennedy and the White House, how she sought to reconcile the conflicts of her marriage and the role she was to play, and how the trauma of her husband’s murder which left her soaked in his blood and brains led her to seek a very different kind of life from the one she’d previously sought.