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A thousand days of magic

Oleg Cassini
1995

A Woman named Jackie

David C. Heyman
1994

All Too Human
[The love story of Jack and Jackie Kennedy]

Edward Klein
1996

American Journey
[The times of Robert Kennedy]

Jean Stein
1970

This book is the story of a complex, many-sided man, told in the voices of the enormous variety of people who knew him. It is the history of Robert Kennedy, the son, the brother, the husband and father, the Attorney General, the Senator, the Presidential candidate, the man.
It is the story - startling in its vividness, heartbreaking in its poignancy - of just what Robert Kennedy was and meant, and what he might have been.

American Legacy
[The story of John and Caroline Kennedy]

C.David Heymann
2007

American Son

Richard Blow
2002

America's Queen
[The life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis]

Sarah Bradford
2000

An Honorable Profession : A  Tribute to Robert F.Kennedy

Pierre Salinger
1968

Aphrodite - Desperate Mission

Jack Olsen
2004

As we remember her

Anthony Carl Sferrazza
1997

Bob Kennedy

Penn Kimball
1968

 In January 1954, the handsome junior senator from Massachusetts and his glamorous wife moved into a three-story townhouse at 3321 Dent Place in Georgetown. Although they would live here for only five months, the house was their first home after their wedding― the society event of the decade―and a place from which they could begin to prepare for the next step in their lives, one that would take John and Jacqueline Kennedy to the White House. In May of that year, Orlando Suero, a photographer with the Three Lions Picture Agency on his first major assignment, spent five days with the Kennedys. He enjoyed their full cooperation and the intimate access that would later, as Jacqueline became more anxious about her family's privacy, be denied to all but a few.

In more than twenty photo sessions, Suero documented a typical week in the young couple's life: Jack at his Senate office, catching up on work at home, and painting in the back garden; Jackie attending classes at Georgetown, gardening, and preparing for an evening of dinner and dancing; and the couple reading the morning papers around the breakfast table, looking through their wedding photos, hosting both casual and formal dinner parties, and tossing the football around with neighbors Bobby and Ethel Kennedy.

Suero's photographs capture the idyllic quality of the young couple's lives during their months in Georgetown. Not yet hounded by the media, John and Jacqueline in these images seem happier and more at ease than they would ever be again. Surprisingly, no magazine ever published Suero's complete photo essay. McCall's ran a few of his photographs that fall, but most of them have not been seen until now. In 1989, Three Lions Picture Agency owner Max Lowenherz donated the photographs to the Johns Hopkins University's Peabody Institute. For Camelot at Dawn, the Peabody Institute's Anne Garside has selected nearly one hundred of the most evocative and affecting pictures Suero took during his week in Georgetown. This remarkable document of John and Jacqueline Kennedy's first year of marriage recalls the romance and the promise embodied by their life together in America's last age of innocence.

Caroline Kennedy
[Female Force Series]

Neal Bailey
2015

Farewell, Jackie [A portrait of her final days]

In November 1993, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis took a tumble from her horse during a hunt in Virginia. A scarce six months later, on May 19,1994, this revered, fascinating woman of substance, style and steely will passed away in her Park Avenue home.
This book, by bestselling author Edward Klein - who knew Jackie for more than a dozen years- is the moving account of those last months and a celebration of the life of an American icon who faced death as she faced life - with all the bravery and grace of a woman who had long inspired the nation.

Forever Young [My Friendship with John F.Kennedy, Jr]

For the first time, Billy Noonan takes us inside the Kennedy compound, where we glimpse America's prince struggling with what it meant to be the son of a man he hardly remembered. As an adult, JFK Jr would embrace his father's legacy and character in order to define his own destiny. With intimate accounts and never-before-seen photos, Noon reveals his friend as a man committed to his family, but determined to live his life on his own terms.

Grace and Power [The Private World of the Kennedy White House]

Over the forty years since the horrific assassination in Dallas, the appeal of John and Jackie Kennedy, a uniquely glamorous presidential couple, frozen in eternal youth by the terrible and sudden truncation of their reign, has if anything only deepened.
Until now, however, no single book has gone beyond the gossip and conspiracy theories to tell the whole story of the Kennedy White House - soberly, comprehensively and compellingly. In a major work of history Sally Bedell Smith now does just that. "Grace and Power" is a compassionate and poignant chronicle of pivotal historical events seen from the inside out, behind the headlines and the carefully staged television appearances.

Amanda Smith has done a superb job of compiling, editing, and interpreting her grandfather's private letters, diaries and other papers, presented here for the first time. "Hostage to Fortune" provides a window of one of the most intriguing and elusive Americans of the twentieth century.

In Italian.
Small book (114 pages - 10 chapters) on John and Bob Kennedy, issued by "Edizioni Messaggero di S.Antonio-Padova"

In Italian.
The story of a dinasty.

1968

In Italian.
Book on "Glory and tragedy of a great family", written by Enzo Biagi, Gianluigi Melega, Mario Pancera and Gianfranco Venè.

Originally published in 1964, THE FOUNDING FATHER is the first biography of Joseph P. Kennedy to review the history of the father of one of the most powerful political families in America. This comprehensive biography of Kennedy patriarch follows his genius business career, his relationship with Franklin Delano Roosevelt, becoming the first SEC Chairman, and watching his children become powerful politicians each in their own right.
 

Richard Burke started as Ted Kennedy's driver in 1971 and then became even personal assistent of the Senator. In this book he decribes what he has seen "Sex, business and politics at Kennedy house".
Italian version.

Italian version.

Drawing on his striking interpretation of Kennedy's character, award-winning historian Ronald Steel examines the life against the legend. It is that legend - one that Kennedy consciously created- that has made him the vessel of the nation's frustrated dreams. Those deams have created the enduring myth of "what might have been".

When Jacqueline Kennedy told her social secretary, Letitia Baldrige, that she planned to make some changes to White House entertaining, neither of them could have foreseen what would follow. Within a few short years, Jacqueline Kennedy's natural elegance and taste would completely transform how the White House - and America- entertained. With French cuisine in the State Dining Room and Pablo Casals playing in the East Room, Jackie created some of the most memorable occasions in White House history and set a standard for hospitality that the whole country would emulate.
In this book Letitia Baldrige and White House chef Renè Verdon have collaborated to recreate some of the most famous evenings of that storied era.

No two brothers have captured the nation's admiration or had as profound an effect on the U.S. national spirit as John F.Kennedy and Robert F.Kennedy.
This book is a photographic tribute to the lives and legacies of these two immortal American figures. Rare and archival photos show the brothers at work, at play, and at home, in public and in private.

The most intimate and revealing look ever at America's storybook couple. Containing stunning, never-before-released details of their life beyond the public eye - the most provocative book ever written on the remarkable Kennedys - this book is an astonishing chronicle of passion, pain and infidelity.

Book published in 1971.
From back cover:
"The life and loves of the most famous and desiderable woman in the world.
Jackie Kennedy Onassis, beautiful, fabulously wealthy yet somehow tragic, has left an indelible impression on her time. Yet despite the glare of publicity that surrounds her, she remains a mystery.
What is she really like? Will she marry again? and who?".

Italian version.
This is the theatratical monologue written in 2002 from the 2004 Nobel Prize-winning Austrian writer Elfriede Jelinek, with her irreverent, sharp-eyed imagining of the inner life of former first lady Jackie Kennedy. The one-woman play,  is called simply "Jackie" but the script calls for such chameleon-like mood changes that maybe the title should have been pluralized.
Jelinek has created a witty, sardonic creature, rather than the demure-seeming public Jackie familiar to Americans. Using a heavy dose of irony, she poetically presents fresh ideas about the uses of power and femininity (not feminism). Her examination of the authenticity of a woman who lived in a faked media bubble, controlled by handlers and public expectations, becomes quite poignant at times, as when Jackie muses that she is "only air and deep pain."
With a fresh, non-American perspective, Jelinek makes clever, cynical observations about a life that was seemingly lived in the public eye. "I am completely private by being completely public," Jackie notes. In the end, Jelinek provides a bittersweet view of an iconic American figure that we were all familiar with, yet didn't really know at all.

Discover the books Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis loved to read during her White House years, and as a book editor.

She captured the world's imagination as First Lady. Without JFK, she achieved a kind of global fame rarely known in XX century. Yet, in spite of it all, and the billions of words written about her, Jaqueline Kennedy Onassis still remained veiled in mistery and mystique. This book draws on newly uncovered information, accompanied by dozens of rare photographs. The result is the real Jaqueline Kennedy Onassis, revealed as never before.

An absorbing chronicle of a much-overlooked chapter of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis's life - her nineteen-year editorial career.
History remembers Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis as the consummate first lady, the nation's tragic widow, the millionaire's wife and, of course, the quintessential embodiment of elegance. Her biographers. however, tend to skip over an equally important stage in her life : her nearly twenty-year-long career as a book editor. "Jackie as Editor" is the first book to focus exclusively on this remarkable woman's editorial career.

Italian edition.
From Pierre-Henri Verlhac and Yann-Brice Dherbier, the editors of the best-selling John F. Kennedy: A Life in Pictures, comes its companion about Jackie Kennedy—a visual voyage through the life of Jackie, also known as Jackie Bouvier, Jackie Kennedy, Jackie Onassis.
 This volume features the most exquisite photographs, many of which are previously unpublished, ever taken of America’s legendary First Lady, as well as a biography and personal notes.

This book is the first to really examine the relationship among the three Kennedy wives. Using extensive research and a wealth of information available to no other biographer, bestelling author J.Randy Taraborrelli truly captures the special sisterhood shared by the three famous Kennedy wives - Jacqueline Bouvier, Ethel Skakel and Joan Bennet.

From the best selling novel by J.Tandy taraborelli, "Jackie Ethel Joan" traces 20 years of remarkable triumphs, shocking scandals and almost insurmountable odds in the lives of these remarkable, resilient, complex and explosively different women.
This is the true inside story of the remarkable, infamous Kennedy reign told through the eyes of the three women who lived it.

For the first time, Vanity Fair contributing editor Sam Kashner and acclaimed biographer Nancy Schoenberger tell the complete story of these larger-than-life sisters. Drawing on new information and extensive interviews with Lee, now 84, this dual biography sheds light on the public and private lives of two extraordinary women who lived through immense tragedy in enormous glamour.

Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis was known by many names, but to us, she is Jackie. And whether she liked it or not, she was the most famous woman in the world. "No one else looked like her, spoke like her, wrote like her, or was so original in the way she did things" said her brother-in-law Senator Edward Kennedy.
This biography details the singular life that made Jackie an icon and contributed so greatly to her ensuring appeal.

"I was really no more than a child when Jacqueline Kennedy came into my life, and made me part of hers."
In 1964, Kathy McKeon was just nineteen years old and newly arrived from Ireland when she was hired as the personal assistant to former first lady Jackie Kennedy. The next thirteen years of her life were spent in Jackie's service, during which Kathy not only played a crucial role in raising young Caroline and John Jr but also had a front-row seat to some of the twentieth century's most significant events.
Because Kathy was always at Jackie' side, Rose Kennedy deemed her "Jackie's girl".
A rare and engrossing look at the private life of one of the most famous women of the twentieth century , "JACKIE'S GIRL" is also a moving personal story of a young woman finding her identity and footing in a new country, along with the help of the most elegant woman in America.

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis was loved and admired the world over, and the auction of her personal belongings in April 1996 created a media frenzy. In this book there is the behind-the-scenes  story of what has been deemed "the estate auction of the century". For 4 days the world stood by awestruck as personal belongings of the First Lady and American icon, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, were sold at the gavel. Held in New York by Sotheby's - the world's most prestigious auction house - the results were nothing short of spectacular, with a first night's total sales of 4.47 Million $.

Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy was one of the world's most celebrate women. This is the story of her life from her childhood through her reign as America's First Lady.
Thoroughly documented, this is an affectionate portrait of the years, events and people who mattered in the incredible life of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy.

From the distinguished author of 18 international bestselling biographies comes the first complete account of perhaps the most famous woman of the twentieth century. In this book, Donald Spoto separates her from the many legend, the gossip and the plain untruths that have obscured Jackie's life.
It is based on the author's unprecedented access to a wealth of new material gleaned from her own writings, from documents at the school she attended, from the archives of the JFK Library and from interviews with those who knew her best.