Jackie Under My Skin: Interpreting an Icon

Wayne Koestenbaum
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A brilliant, irreverent, penetrating and wholly original deconstruction of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, American icon. In an eclectic gallery of fantasies and tableaus, Wayne Koestenbaum explains the late First Lady's mesmeric hold on America by discovering the myths and metaphors that have been associated with her.
Genres: HistoryBiographyNonfictionBiography MemoirQueerEssaysAmerican
304 Pages

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