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 -- LiberteĢ, 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.
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.
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