Jacqueline Kennedy: The White House Years: Selections from the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum

This revealing book celebrates the 40th anniversary of Jacqueline Kennedy's coming to prominence as America's First Lady and explores her enduring influence on style and fashion.An in-depth look at the clothes and the era demonstrates how Jacqueline Kennedy became the beacon of style whose legacy is [...]
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This revealing book celebrates the 40th anniversary of Jacqueline Kennedy's coming to prominence as America's First Lady and explores her enduring influence on style and fashion.An in-depth look at the clothes and the era demonstrates how Jacqueline Kennedy became the beacon of style whose legacy is still with us today. This book presents 80 original gowns, suits, dresses, and accessories from the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum against a backdrop of personal notes, artifacts, and anecdotes from such White House insiders as historian Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. and friend of the First Lady, Jayne Wrightsman. Combining original and new photography, the volume presents images of the First Lady that have rarely been seen as well as photos that have become part of the national consciousness. This unique perspective on the Kennedy White House years reveals the impact Jacqueline Kennedy had on the world, on America's vision of itself, and on the role played by the First Lady in the life of the nation. Author Biography: Hamish Bowles is European Editor-at-Large, Vogue, and Curator of the Exhibition, Jacqueline Kennedy: The White House Years. James A. Abbott is Curator, Decorative Arts, The Baltimore Museum of Art, and author, with Elaine M. Rice, of Designing Camelot: The Kennedy White House Restoration (1997). Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., was Special Assistant to President Kennedy and is a Pulitzer-Prize winning historian, and author of numerous books, including A Thousand Days (1965), a study of the Kennedy White House.