The main or key thrust of Leaming’s book is her claim that Jackie had PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder). The author details after the assassination how Bobby Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson sought to comfort her and to use her politically. In this biography learning has considerable documentation from a variety of sources.
Learning’s major fault as a biographer is her tendency to mind read. The first third of the book recycles considerable material from the first biography minus the dubious theories. This is Barbara Leaming’s third Kennedy biography. It became clear that she had not just lost her husband - she had an appalling experience that no-one really considered properly Any additional comments? The Vietnam war was the turning point for sufferers - after that it became clear that terrible shock makes you ill but the sufferer can be helped Harold MacMillan's kindness to her, as he was in WW1 and had experience of trauma Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you? The fact Jacky told anyone she met, in detail, what had happened in Dallas - reliving it endlessly. A truly amazing and thoughtful book Which scene did you most enjoy? Hard to say.
The second thing was the insight into how PTSD affects thee sufferer. It showed for the first time that Jacky Kennedy Onassis suffered PTSD (not understood at the time of the assassination) for 31 years. Would you consider the audio edition of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis to be better than the print version? YES What did you like best about this story? It was very revealing in two ways. A story for our times at a moment when we as a nation need more than ever to understand the impact of trauma. Kennedy and the White House, how she sought to reconcile the conflicts of her marriage and the role she was to play, and how the trauma of her husband’s murder, which left her soaked in his blood and brains, led her to seek a very different kind of life from the one she’d previously sought.Ī life story that has been scrutinized countless times, seen here for the first time as the serious and important story that it is. We see how a spirited young woman’s rejection of a predictable life led her to John F. Leaming’s biography also makes clear the pattern of Jackie’s life as a whole.
In heartrending detail, we witness a struggle that unfolded at times before our own eyes, but which we failed to understand. Here is the woman as she has never been seen before. The untold story of how one woman’s life was changed forever in a matter of seconds by a horrific trauma.īarbara Leaming’s extraordinary and deeply sensitive biography is the first book to document Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis’ brutal, lonely, and valiant 31-year struggle with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) following JFK’s assassination.
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