Just Jackie (53 page)

Jackie’s comment about journalists was made to the author at a Christmas party he attended at Jackie’s apartment in 1981.

Insight into Jackie’s work as an editor at Doubleday was drawn from an extensive interview with John Loring, the former design director of Tiffany & Company, and from interviews with other publishing colleagues who wish to remain anonymous.

Insight into Jackie’s frame of mind in the mid 1980s was drawn from an interview with one of her authors, the psychoanalyst Dr. Stephen Appelbaum.

Jackie defined her own idea of happiness in an article that appeared in
Ms
. magazine in March 1979. Gloria Steinem’s thoughts about Jackie’s life as a working woman appeared in that same issue of
Ms
., and were reprinted
in her collection of essays
Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions
(Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1983).

Susan Douglas, professor of media and American Studies at Hampshire College, relates her ideas about Jackie as a transitional figure for early feminists in
Where the Girls Are
(Times Books, 1994).

The narrative of Jackie’s growing reliance on Maurice Tempelsman in “The Power behind the Throne” was drawn from the author’s interviews with Hélène Arpels and with a number of friends of the couple who wish to remain anonymous.

Details about Tempelsman’s heart attack and follow-up treatment were drawn from an interview with one of his friends. The author also drew upon a number of published sources, including the American Heart Association’s
Guide to Heart Attack Treatment, Recovery, and Prevention
(Times Books, 1996), Robert E. Kowalski’s
8 Steps to a Healthy Heart
(Warner Books, 1992), Siegfried Kra’s
What Every Woman Must Know about Heart Disease
(Warner Books, 1996), and Harvey Wolinsky and Gary Ferguson’s
The Heart Attack Recovery Handbook
(Warner Books, 1988).

The narrative on Jackie’s transformation from haunted to happy in “The Best Disguise” is drawn from the author’s extensive interview with John Loring.

The account of Jackie’s life on Martha’s Vineyard is drawn from interviews with summer and winter residents of the island, including Gus Ben David, director of the Felix Neck Wildlife Sanctuary; Joan Braden; Art Buchwald; David Flanders, Flanders Real Estate; Ralph Graves; Louise Grunwald; Adriana Ignacio; Robert McNamara; I. M. Pei; Richard Reston, editor and publisher of the
Vineyard Gazette;
and Alfred Vanderhoop, whose family owned part of the disputed Gay Head property.

Details of Jackie’s purchase of the Gay Head property and the subsequent suit and settlement with the Wampanoag Indians were also drawn from accounts published in the
Vineyard Gazette
, August 1978, January 1989, and March 1990.

Bunny Mellon described her landscaping for Jackie’s Gay Head property in Paul Deitz’s “The Private World of a Great Gardener,”
The New York Times
, June 3, 1982.

Details of Jackie’s relationship with her children are drawn from the author’s interviews with Peter Beard and with a number of other friends who wish to remain anonymous.

Primary published sources for information on John F. Kennedy Jr.’s life include Wendy Leigh’s
Prince Charming
(Dutton, 1993), Lester David’s
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
(Birch Lane Press, 1994), and C. David Hey-mann’s
A Woman Named Jackie
(Lyle Stuart, 1989).

The narrative about Jackie in “The Man Who Won Art Buchwald” was drawn from interviews with Art Buchwald and with a guest at the Katharine Graham luncheon who wishes to remain anonymous.

The section “A Real Trooper” is drawn from the author’s extensive interview with Tillie Weitzner, Jackie’s yoga teacher.

The narrative of Jackie’s diagnosis and treatment for cancer was drawn from the author’s interviews with medical personnel involved in Jackie’s treatment who wish to remain anonymous.

Other details come from a number of published sources including Lois Romano’s “Reliable Source” column,
The Washington Post
, November 24, 1993; Christopher Andersen’s
Jackie after Jack
(William Morrow, 1998); Carl Sferrazza Anthony’s
As We Remember Her
(HarperCollins, 1997); Lester David’s
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
(Birch Lane Press, 1994); and C. David Heymann’s A
Woman Named Jackie
(Lyle Stuart, 1989).

Frank Sinatra’s first
Duets
album was released in 1993 by Capitol Records. The words to the song “Guess I’ll Hang My Tears Out to Dry” were written by Sammy Cahn; the music was composed by Jule Styne; the words to “In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning” were by Bob Hilliard; the music was by David Mann.

Information on non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma was drawn from Laurence K. Altman’s “Lymphomas Are on the Rise in U.S. and No One Knows Why,”
The New York Times
, May 24, 1994, and Geoffrey Cowley’s “A Varied but Brutal Disease,”
Newsweek
, May 30, 1994.

The narrative of Maurice providing breakfast for Jackie after her radiation treatments was drawn from Elizabeth Gleick’s “The Man Who Loved Jackie,”
People
, July 11, 1994.

C. P. Cavafy’s poem “Ithaca” appears in
The Complete Poems of Cavafy
(Harvest Books/Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1989).

Brooke Astor’s letter from Jackie was read on the
Charlie Rose Show
about Jackie, May 20, 1994.

The words and music to “Touched by the Sun” were written by Carly Simon.

The narrative in “Final Exit” is drawn from the author’s interview with close friends of Jackie’s who wish to remain anonymous.

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