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Summary: Picture Perfect Life of a Great Lady
Review: "Jackie Style" is a wonderful overview of this amazing first lady who seems to be everywhere you turn these days. Loaded with gorgeous pictures that capture all facets of her life, "Jackie Style" was well worth the price paid. I'd recommend Keogh's tome to anyone enthralled by this woman and her amazing style.
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Summary: All I can say is "Bravo Pamela you've done it again".
Review: A wonderful journey inside and outside of a Beautiful being known as Jackie... The words and Images leave an impression on your soul... A wonderful gift for a woman or to someone who Loves them.
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Summary: For REAL Jackie lovers
Review: As a big fan of one of the most beautiful women in the world, I couldn't have been more satisfied by this book. The photographs are gorgeous, and many I have never seen before. But the text, too, was caring, thoughtful and enlightening. It was fabulous to see such care taken to link photos and text. I can't imagine being a Jackie fan and not having this book.
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Summary: Great Overview of the Life of JKO
Review: As one who has read virtually everything ever written on JKO I want to say that Ms. Keogh's book does an excellent job of giving the reader a balanced view of her subject's life and loves. The book is beautifully produced on wonderful slick, heavy stock..a pleasure to read. Lots of good photos, even some new ones I had never seen. Like the rest of us, JKO was a woman of many moods and emotions. She is nonetheless admirable and remarkable in terms of the restoration work on the WH for having also done it with style, charm and beauty. Readers must remember that JKO was NOT a feminist but a very traditional wife who most wanted to produce a family for her husband and sustain his love and devotion. I find her story fascinating because she bridged the increasingly widening span of the womens' place as interpreted with a view from the 1930's,40's,50's into the 60's which began to see the role of women changing so radically. This book tells that story very effectively and reveals many intriguing facets of this remarkable woman's life journey.
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Summary: Too little book for the money.....
Review: At the price I paid for this book, I expected a large format coffee table book, but what I got was barely 250 pages of a regular biography, although highly designed and with a fair amount of pictures (some good, some bad). There's really nothing wrong with this book except the cost should be about half of what it is in terms of what you get for the money.The writer puts herself into Jackie's mind and pretends to know what Jackie Kennedy was thinking when people took her photograph or when she had guests to dinner. It's not biography, it's not journalism, it's sort of "Faction" half fact, half fiction. The writing style is bitchy and silly, but not too bad. Shame on whoever priced this book.
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Summary: OVERPRICED and DULL, DULL, DULL a COMPLETE WASTE of TIME...
Review: Beginning with the BORING Mark Shaw Official White House photograph chosen for the cover of this book, it was clear that this book would be a mere regurgetation of facts about Mrs. Onassis culled from the same old, same old tedious sources, which, after Valentino's introduction, suffice to say, was all downhill. Purporting to be a book devoted to Mrs. Onassis' style, I kept waiting for it to begin, which it NEVER did...instead, we are "treated" to Ms. Keogh's interpretation of some genuine facts, along with the usual misinterpretations, gossip, speculation, pop-psychology babble, interjected here and there with the odd statement of those Mrs. Onassis counted as supposed friends or what have you, often presented as an "interview" conducted especially for this book, more like the typical "soundbite" to which modern pop biography is routinely subjected. The editorial content of this book is more or less a in the genre of the High School Term-Paper and was a bore from beginning to end...no revelations or anything insightful found here, at all. Equally disappointing to me was her absurdly limited use of widely seen images of Mrs. Onassis, who for thirty-five (35) years of her life, particularly with John F. Kennedy's ascendancy to The White House, remained THE most famous woman in the world, (a full generation before Diana, Princess of Wales)begging the question, with all of the hordes of photographers stalking Mrs. Onassis throughout her adult life, WHERE ARE THE PHOTOGRAPHS, did all the photographers participate in a bonfire somewhere???!!! For goodness sakes, Ron Galella, who stalked her for years, published a book of his select images of her in 1974. To this end it is odd when Ms. Keogh herself makes mention of Mrs. Onassis's most famous woman in the world status, yet serves-up such banal use of imagery for public consumption, one can't help but think it was just the compensation she would recieve on the wave of her similar book devoted to Audrey Hepburn. Skip this one folks, there are better books devoted to her style, some old and out of print, while others quite recent, such as "Jacqueline Kennedy In The White house" a paperback from 1963; "The Kennedy White House Parties" by Anne Lincoln, published by Viking in 1967; 'my Life With Jacqueline Kennedy", by her former Secretary, Mary B. Gallagher, 1969; "Jacqueline Kennedy: The White House Years" the ONLY book published largely from Mrs. Onassis's recollections and direction, by Mary V. R. Thayer, published in 1971 by Little Brown & Co; "A Thousand Days of Magic: Dressing Jacqueline Kennedy for The White House" by her Official Couturier, Oleg Cassini; "In The Kennedy Style", by her former Social Secretary, Letitia Baldridge; and this year's two (2) better volumes..."Jacqueline Kennedy: The White House Years" the catalogue for the current exhibition mounted by the Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in conjunction with The John F. Kennedy Library; and the just released "Jackie: The Clothes of Camelot" by Jay Mulvaney a book that is just plain fun, appealing, and visually enjoyable, if not as thorough as one might have hoped, but his enthusiasm for his subject along with his sense-of-humour, make this the missing link so obviously lacking within "Jackie Style"!!!! Wait for "Jackie Style" to hit the bargain stacks, I wish she had compensated me for reading it!!!
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Summary: Overpriced Rehash
Review: Clearly, Ms. Keogh is counting on the name Jackie to make her a bundle of money. I would not dream of buying this book new. By and large, it says what has been said and said and said. By and large, we have seen the photos. If you can't wait to buy it used, read it standing up in the bookstore. It won't take long...you've heard most of it before.
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Summary: This Is An Amazing Book
Review: I am a voracious reader of all things biographical - memoirs, historical, famous people etc. This book struck me as suceeding on many levels: it is a respectful history of an American icon, it is a well-researched and thorough pictorial panorama of Jackie's life, and it is a fun romp through a period of our past with which, it is safe to say, many many people are still fascinated all these years later. Ms. Keogh has taken a subject well-known and certainly oft-discussed and written about and given it a fresh spin and a new approach. I greatly enjoyed every page of this book and will treasure it as a valuable addition to my library. Well done Ms. Keogh!!
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Summary: This Is An Amazing Book
Review: I am a voracious reader of all things biographical - memoirs, historical, famous people etc. This book struck me as suceeding on many levels: it is a respectful history of an American icon, it is a well-researched and thorough pictorial panorama of Jackie's life, and it is a fun romp through a period of our past with which, it is safe to say, many many people are still fascinated all these years later. Ms. Keogh has taken a subject well-known and certainly oft-discussed and written about and given it a fresh spin and a new approach. I greatly enjoyed every page of this book and will treasure it as a valuable addition to my library. Well done Ms. Keogh!!
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Summary: Insightful, captures Jackie's humor, A+
Review: I loved this book. After reading numerous books and articles on Jackie Kennedy Onassis, it is refreshing to read a book which is complete, and not sensationalistic. It is imbued with the writer's sense of humor, insights and competent research. Keogh is always respectful of her subject. I found this to be a fun read which will certainly be enjoyed by many people. Wouldn't it be great if more people had one tenth the style JKO had? Keogh shows just how this style can be accessable to many women. I just hope it's still on the shelf this December, It would make a great Christmas present. However it is a book that just about anyone would like to receive for any occasion.
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