The Tragic Strength of Jacqueline Kennedy: How the First Lady Became the Picture of Heartbroken Poise
The young woman who would become Jacqueline Kennedy, and then Jackie O., wasn't raised to wear her heart on her sleeve.
Jacqueline Bouvier was raised to grin and bear it.
The impeccably bred and accomplished elder daughter of a socialite mother and a womanizing, alcoholic stockbroker father whom she adored learned at an early age that poise and turning the other cheek could help take the edge off of life's misfortunes.
She couldn't help but attract attention, yet circumstances naturally made her extremely distrustful of the press. She would end up spending the entirety of her adult life both acknowledging the feeding frenzy and trying to protect herself and her children from it.
She was known for...
