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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Anthony, Carl Sferrazza, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy, 1929-1994.

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy.

Women journalists--United States--Biography.

Women journalists.

Presidents' spouses--United States--Biography.

Presidents' spouses.

Celebrities--United States--Biography.

Celebrities.

Times-herald (Washington, D.C.).

Journalists--United States--Biography.

Journalists.

United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xiii, 379 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm

Edition:

First Gallery Books hardcover edition.

Other Title:

Coming of age of Jackie Bouvier Kennedy

Place of Publication:

New York : Gallery Books, 2023.

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.

Contents:

Part I: Eastern seaboard. Getting her camera, May-August 1949

Daddy and Mummy, 1929-1948

Part II: Europe. A new language, August-October 1949

Paris, October-November 1949

The "terrific" vacation, November 1949-January 1950

Autonomy, January-June 1950

Liberté, June-September 1950

Part III: Families. East Hampton, September 1950

Newport, September-October 1950

Part IV: Writing. George Washington University, October-December 1950

Last semester, January-March 1951

Vogue, April-June 1951

Lee, June-September 1951

Office clerk, September-December 1951

Palm Beach, December 1951

Part V: The paper. The blue room, January 1952

Out on the street, February 1952

Byline, March 1952

Working woman, April 1952

A second dinner, May-June 1952

Part VI: The campaign. Hyannis Port, July 1952

Summer in the city, August-September 1952

Massachusetts, October-November 1952

Palm Beach, II, November-December 1952

Inauguration, January 1953

Part VII: Courtship. Love and sex, February 1953

Meeting of the minds, March 1953

The Vietnam report, March-April 1953

Dating, April-May 1953

Coronation, May-June 1953

Engagement, June 1953

Partner, July-September 1953.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-367) and index.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Ashjean fund bookplate.

Other Format:

Online version:

Anthony, Carl Sferrazza. Camera girl

Online version: Anthony, Carl Sferrazza. Camera girl

ISBN:

9781982141875

1982141875

OCLC:

1345242464