Jackie's Girl: My Life with the Kennedy Family

ISBN: 1501158953

Author: McKeon, Kathy

Condition: New

New York Times BestsellerAn endearing coming-of-age memoir by a young woman who spent thirteen years as Jackie Kennedys personal assistant and occasional nanny-and the lessons about life and love she learned from the glamorous first lady.In 1964, Kathy McKeon was just nineteen and newly arrived from Ireland when she was hired as the personal assistant to former first lady Jackie Kennedy. The next thirteen years of her life were spent in Jackies service, during which Kathy not only played a crucial role in raising young Caroline and John Jr., but also had a front-row seat to some of the twentieth centurys most significant events.Because Kathy was always at Jackies side, Rose Kennedy deemed her Jackies girl. And although Kathy called Jackie Madam, she considered her employer more like a big sister who, in many ways, mentored her on how to be a lady. Kathy was there during Jackie and Aristotle Onassiss courtship and marriage and Robert Kennedys assassination, dutifully supporting Jackie and the children during these tumultuous times in history.A rare and engrossing look at the private life of one of the most famous women of the twentieth century, Jackies Girl is also a moving personal story of a young woman finding her identity and footing in a new country, along with the help of the most elegant woman in America.