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Camera girl : the coming of age of Jackie Bouvier Kennedy / Carl Sferrazza Anthony.

Summary:
"Camera Girl brings to cinematic life Jackie Kennedy's years as a young woman chafing at the expectations of her family and her era as she seeks to follow her dreams of becoming a famous writer. Set primarily during the underexamined years of 1950-1954, when Jackie was 20 to 25 years old, the book recounts the extraordinary story of her late college years, coming-of-age, and her life as a young female journalist. Before she met Jack Kennedy, Jacqueline Bouvier was a columnist at the Washington Times-Herald, the paper's "Inquiring Camera Girl," who posed intelligent and amusing questions to the public on the streets of D.C. (while also snapping their photos with her unwieldy Leica camera). She then fashioned the results into a daily column, 600 of which were published in total. Carl Anthony, author and leading expert on First Ladies, uses these columns and other writings of hers from that time, as well as a trove of revealing interviews he has conducted with her friends and colleagues, to offer a fresh and modern perspective on the young woman who would later become one of the world's most beloved icons. It's a glamorous, surprising, and distinctly feminist story about a woman determining her own priorities and defining herself, told with admiration and empathy, as well as journalistic rigor and historical accuracy"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781982141875
  • ISBN: 1982141875
  • Physical Description: xiii, 379 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
  • Publisher: New York, NY : Gallery Books, An Imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., [2023]

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-367)and index.
Subject: Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy, 1929-1994.
Women journalists > United States > Biography.
Presidents' spouses > United States > Biography.
Celebrities > United States > Biography.
Times-herald (Washington, D.C.)
Genre: Biographies.

Available copies

  • 22 of 25 copies available at SPARK Libraries.

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  • 0 current holds with 25 total copies.
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Abington Community Library 92 ONASSIS (Text) 50687011832402 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Albright Memorial Library 92 ONASSIS (Text) 50686016335098 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Altoona Area Public Library 973.922 ANT (Text) 33240005164408 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Boyertown Community Library KEN (Text) 33249025665963 Biography Available -
Cambria County Library 973.922 K349A (Text) 85131001878470 CACM Non-Fiction Checked Out 04/19/2024
Coudersport Public Library B KENNEDY (Text) 30183000706406 Adult Biography Checked Out 04/02/2024
Dalton Community Library 92 ONASSIS (Text) 50689010461357 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Indian Valley Public Library Biography Onassis Presidents & First Ladies (Text) 39427103737441 Nonfiction Room: Adult Biography Available -
Mansfield Free Public Library 923.173 ANT (Text) 31424284 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Martin Library Adults Kennedy Biography (Text) 33454005952957 2nd Floor Available -


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