William Kuhn

THE BOOK

By looking at her years as an editor at Viking and Doubleday, where she worked on nearly a hundred books, we discover how those books were intimately connected with her own life story. They were the autobiography she never wrote. She showed her interests, passions and the way she saw the world in the books she selected for publication.

The book also tells stories of Jackie's adventures in the publishing world with the likes of Carly Simon, Michael Jackson, Bill Moyers, Richard Gere, Martha Graham, Judith Jamison and many more.

THE AUTHOR

William Kuhn has written three previous books: Democratic Royalism (1996), Henry and Mary Ponsonby: Life at the Court of Queen Victoria (2002), and The Politics of Pleasure: A Portrait of Benjamin Disraeli (2006).

BBC Radio Four featured Kuhn's biography of the Ponsonbys on its "Book of the Week." The actor Geoffrey Palmer (Mrs Brown, A Fish Called Wanda) read the excerpts.

Most recently Kuhn has been professor of history at Carthage College. He has held fellowships from the Social Science Research Council and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He was an undergraduate at the University of Chicago; and completed his doctorate in history at Johns Hopkins.

THE VIDEO

See William Kuhn's presentation on Jacqueline Onassis at the Boston Athenaeum. Available via the link below to C-SPAN's BookTV